The first two skeletons removed from the pit ... University of Missouri who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a term for humans and other nonape primates; some researchers prefer ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

The first members of the human lineage ... includes modern humans and our fossil relatives — were virtually unknown, and our phylogenetic relationship with living African apes was highly debated.

To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy ... was between 1.7 and 2.9 times higher in Lucy than in a modern human. The more “ape like” you make the muscle ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

Human life history differs in many ways from our closest living relatives, the African great apes. In particular ... studied to date appear to match the modern human trajectory of brain growth ...

To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy ... and 2.9 times higher in Lucy than in a modern human. The more "ape like" you make the muscle architecture ...

What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human? Our big brains, with their capacity for language and making complex tools, set us apart from other animals. Our ability to ...

Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans but with much ...

To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy ... 2.9 times higher in Lucy than in a modern human. The more “ape like” you make the muscle architecture ...