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.

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

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.

This discovery contrasts with the idea that meat consumption played a central role in the early evolution of hominids. Australopithecus, unlike Neanderthals, did not hunt large mammals. Researchers ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting. She has M.As in biological anthropology and science writing. The "discovery" turned out to be the biggest hoax in the ...

Hominins are believed to have started leaving Africa around 2 million years ago, spreading out into Eurasia. The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins outside of Africa comes from ...

These results, recently published in Genome Biology and Evolution, provide a clear explanation for why ... be due to the discovery of fire and the embryonic clothing of early hominids, which may have ...