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.

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

A palaeoanthropologist is being honoured for his work tracing the evolution and origins of humans. A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, ...

In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from hominids and the significance of this distinction. The content covers 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aa Aa Aa The idea that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been shaped by environmental factors has been around since Darwin. Although various hypotheses and ...

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 ...