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.

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.

Experts make the case for food decoration as a symbolic act that's important for courtship – and show that no other animals ...

If this species interbred with Homo sapiens ... future discoveries could deepen our understanding of early hominids and their place in human evolution. The Dragon Head fossil proves that human ...

The newly identified species were older more primitive ... The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids. Dr. Ian Tattersall, an evolutionary biologist ...

pushing the boundaries of our understanding of evolution in Western Europe. This discovery, published in Nature, opens a new ...

The genetic information contained in the genomes of six species of hominids has ... during the evolutionary process of hominids, leading to interspecies evolution as they recombine." ...

South Africa’s limestone caves, such as Sterkfontein often hold the fossilized skeletons of hominids who fell into ... identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo ...

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 ...

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.