What Does This Mean for Human Evolution? The parallels between chimpanzee and hominin behavior ... But studies like this push the timeline further back, suggesting that complex tool use might ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published Jan. 30 in the journal Cell, researchers focused on a class of genetic switches known as Human Accelerated ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

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 ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs. A range of ...