The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Yet we five great apes do differ significantly in diet, temperament, behavior, and other aspects. In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the four other hominids apart from one ...