Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright. Walking on two legs distinguished the first hominids from other apes, but scientists still aren’t sure why our ancestors became bipedal ...

In human evolution, hominids are most often compared to their living descendants—us. They are also compared to our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. This makes a lot of sense.

In 1970, the natural history illustrator Rudolph Zallinger painted a picture of human evolution called "The March of Progress" in which a parade of hominids walked along from left to right ...

Genetic material preserved in our ancestors' fossils has allowed us to reconstruct the last 50,000 years of hominids evolution. Even so, ...

ALBUQUERQUE — A tiny fossil thumb bone provides a gripping look at the early evolution of human hands, according to a study presented April 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association ...

Hints about hominids. Zane Johnson. September 19, 2013. ... The purpose of the project is to form new, testable hypotheses on human evolution and the dynamics of Earth’s systems, ...

A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a "game changer" occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study.

From left: D. Falk et al/Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2018; William Hopkins, Christoph Zollikofer and D. Falk “I was really wrong about the handful of Australopithecus endocasts,” Falk says.