By standing upright, hominids had less need of hair to keep heat out, except on the head and shoulders. The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids.

Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...

The research, which involves hominin fossils associated with Eastern Asia’s Late Quaternary, could be poised to reshape our ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

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At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

He works on fossil primates and he is involved in understanding the origins of hominids and problems of paleoenvironments. He is also interested in the evolution of carnivores. George D. Koufos, ...

"We expected to find either dental development typical of early hominids, close to that of ... of information to be transmitted increased, evolution would have favored an increase in brain size ...