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.

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 ...

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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.

Its unusual structure challenges long-standing ideas about human evolution, hinting at a more diverse array of early Asian hominids than previously thought. Hidden within a cave system in ...

The hominids were mistakenly believed to have ... outlook in the scientific community toward the history of our species' evolution. Read also: They are thousands of years old and resemble human ...

For those early hominids, a fire at night served as a light ... And, since meditation also has benefits for health, Rossano proposes that evolution would have favored those who were good ...

Among a group of hominids searching for fruits ... significant role in the development of our concepts of human evolution,” says C.K. “Bob” Brain, a curator emeritus at South Africa ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

The researchers stated that "the position of NORs may have changed during the evolutionary process of hominids, leading to interspecies evolution as they recombine." The research team also ...