"With ramidus," he said, "we are very very close to the hominid-ape split, surprisingly close." Molecular biologists, comparing the DNA of modern humans, chimpanzees and gorillas, estimate that ...

“Understanding what is a great ape and what is a hominid is tough.” As researchers sort out where Ardi sits in the human family tree, they agree that she is advancing fundamental questions ...

The paper suggests these could be an ape-like hominid descendant, or descendants of “unknown, intelligent dinosaurs”. The ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

They could not confirm that the fossils came from a primate until 2015 when the remains of another great ape were unearthed at the same site. The bones were of a hominid that was eventually named ...

To many people, it seemed logical that our earliest ancestors must have been smarter than the average ape. The first sign ... was the most complete hominid skeleton that had been found up to ...

The hominid, nearly two million years old ... If so, then the Cradle could be the site where hominids evolved beyond their more ape-like features and moved closer to being human.

The earliest ancestors of humankind are known as Australopithecines - commonly known as 'ape men'. The first example ... The bones are likely to be of a hominid, who fell through a shaft and ...