Cranial morphometry of early hominids I. Facial region ... sexual dimorphism in Lufengpithecus. In Species, Species Concepts and Primate Evolution. eds. Kimbel, W. H. & Martin, L.

The hominids evolved and branched into at least twelve distinct species. Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the ...

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.

We often see the results of evolution, but not the process directly. Now, scientists have been treated to front row seats of ...

A proportionately small brain at birth in a species with a very ... dimensions in Pliocene hominids: Implications for obstetrics. Journal of Human Evolution 16, 291-296 (1987).

Based on this finding, the researchers conclude that we are actually the same species as these ancient hominids ... the past 1 million years of our evolution to identify human-specific genomic ...

Research uncovers early humans' reliance on plant-based foods, revealing ancient tools and 780,000-year-old starch grains.

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 ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting ... anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree ...

In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in action. James Stroud, an assistant professor in ...

All species also belong to larger groups. For example, chimps belong to a family called the hominids, which also includes humans. The hominid family in turn belongs to a larger class, called mammals.