For this reason, many researchers now place all species of great ape and human within a single family, Hominidae - making them all proper "hominids" (Figure 2b). Such taxonomic changes have ...

Based on this finding, the researchers conclude that we are actually the same species as these ancient hominids, albeit an abnormally intelligent, weird-looking population of people within this ...

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.

Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.

But if evolutionism is fundamentally concerned with how different species arose and how differences are maintained, then Lio people and other Flores islanders have for a long time been asking the same ...

Millions of years ago, our early ancestors roamed an area of Africa known as the Cradle of Mankind, scouring the landscape in ...

All species also belong to larger groups. For example, chimps belong to a family called the hominids, which also includes humans. The hominid family in turn belongs to a larger class, called mammals.

ramidus suggest that the species lived in the forest. Exhibiting some chimp-like characteristics, A. anamensis' jaws are more primitive than those of later hominids. And yet, its humerus (an arm ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who ...