Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Aa Aa Aa Reconstructing the evolution of human development from a severely limited fossil record may be viewed as both a fundamental challenge and a promising field of research. Life history ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

And this kind infanticide is really damaging to the sexual interest of the females.So one of the things that had to happen in human evolution was to solve the infanticide problem. Human females ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

Neanderthals have long been portrayed as dim-witted, brutish monsters who were genetically inferior to our direct ancestors, early modern humans. These ape-like creatures spoke in grunts, were ...

If Neanderthals belonged to our species, it could reshape the history of human evolution and challenge how we define what makes us human. Most of us have some Neanderthal DNA The first fossils of ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

Understanding human evolution through the study of whale evolution Brief definition and history of mammals How did land-based mammals return to the sea? Fossils from "transitional species" trace ...

Read More: An Introduction to the History of Human Evolution To see how locomotion evolved and how the inner ear changed over time, researchers took Lufengpithecus skulls found in China in the ...

In this new work he extends this pioneering approach to encompass the origins of human language.' Elena Levy, University of Connecticut '… grounded in the expertise of more than three decades of ...