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.

The hominids were mistakenly believed to have ... outlook in the scientific community toward the history of our species' ...

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.

In other words, evolution and the second law of thermodynamics ... gave rise to two separate lineages, one resulting in ...

Smith, B.H. Evolution of the human life cycle. American Journal of Human Biology 8, 703-716 (1996). Bromage, T. G., & Dean, M. C. Re-evaluation of the age at death of immature fossil hominids.

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...

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 ...

"This discovery underscores the importance of plant foods in the evolution of our ancestors," said Dr. Ahituv. "We now understand that early hominids gathered a wide variety of plants year-round ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting. She has M.As in biological anthropology and science writing. The "discovery" turned out to be the biggest hoax in the ...

His PhD research concerned the use of dental development and aging standards to assess the evolution of life history in early hominids such as Australopithecus africanus. After completion of his PhD, ...

Peter Fernandez said that they would like to conduct similar analyses on the remaining bones of the forefoot, in order to fully characterise the changes involved in the evolution of bipedal walking.