In human evolution, hominids are most often compared to their living descendants—us. They are also compared to our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. This makes a lot of sense.

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.

Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright. Walking on two legs distinguished the first hominids from other apes, but scientists still aren’t sure why our ancestors became bipedal ...

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A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed â Dragon Head,â near Hualongdong that doesnâ t ...

A complete skull found in the Eurasian country of Georgia could be evidence that early hominids are actually all members of a single species. The view challenges long-held ideas about human evolution ...

New standards for reconstructing extinct hominids could lead to more accurate representations, such as this sculpture of a 2.8-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus youngster known as the ...

The story of human evolution is far messier and less ... 300,000 years ago and that doesn’t fit into any known species c ... of features found in a host of other archaic hominids, ...