By standing upright, hominids had less need of hair to keep heat out, except on the head and shoulders. The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids.

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

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.

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 ...

Its unusual structure challenges long-standing ideas about human evolution, hinting at a more diverse array of early Asian hominids than previously thought. Hidden within a cave system in ...

The hominids were mistakenly believed to have ... outlook in the scientific community toward the history of our species' evolution. Read also: They are thousands of years old and resemble human ...

For those early hominids, a fire at night served as a light ... And, since meditation also has benefits for health, Rossano proposes that evolution would have favored those who were good ...

Among a group of hominids searching for fruits ... significant role in the development of our concepts of human evolution,” says C.K. “Bob” Brain, a curator emeritus at South Africa ...

The researchers stated that "the position of NORs may have changed during the evolutionary process of hominids, leading to interspecies evolution as they recombine." The research team also ...

In Africa, it was closely associated with the origin and evolution of early modern humans ... It was previously believed that early hominids in China showed slow technological development ...