But sometimes it’s more informative to compare hominids with more distantly related species that share traits due to convergent evolution—when two species evolve analogous characteristics ...

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.

While the timeline of the evolution of upright walking is well understood, why hominids took their first ... Who knows how many species of bipedal apes they’ll find. But each new discovery ...

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.

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 ...

It may also be potentially crucial to our understanding of human evolution. A remarkably complete female of the species dubbed ... tree — often known as the hominids — appeared roughly ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them our ancestors ... Each name represents a group of related species. As this chart shows, evolution rarely follows a straight line, but instead branches ...

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

Editor's Note: This is Part 8 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the human species and the ... "So the hominids at this time, based on all the evidence that ...