A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

Kordos, L. Phyletic affinities and functional convergence in Dryopithecus and other Miocene and living hominids. In Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations.

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.

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.

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques "from stone to bone" 1.5 million years ...

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 ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

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 ...

And in the history of hominids, the last few million years ... Worry less about classification — except maybe with regard to evolution — and more about taking some time to learn a whole ...