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 ...

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 ...

Skeletal evidence shows that these hominids walked upright. The teeth of some Australopithecus species were human-like, showing that human ancestors learned to walk upright even before their ...

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.

As it happens, rounded rocks have been found at sites occupied by ancient hominids across the world, although until now ...

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 ...

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 ...