The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

In Tanzania’s Issa Valley, the landscape is a mix of thick forest near rivers and open woodlands. During the dry season, ...

New research reveals extreme size differences between male and female early human ancestors.

Early apes to ‘hominisation’ (around 35m to 8m years ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are ...

Among humans, it was 36.4 to 39.3 per cent, compared to 36.6 to 38.7 per cent among orangutans, 32.4 to 37.5 per cent among chimpanzees and 35 to 36.9 per cent among gorillas.

Humans' closest relatives are other apes, such as chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, we share nearly 99% of the same genes, or letters in our DNA, with chimpanzees.

Despite humans and non-human great apes having a common ancestor, the former has evolved larger brains and the ability to walk or run upright on two feet to travel long distances, likely to hunt ...

Fossils of ancient human relatives suggest the beginning of the evolution of apes and humans occurred in Europe, not Africa CBC News · Posted: Feb 19, 2002 1:06 PM EST | Last Updated: February 19 ...

A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the ...

A pair of two-million-year-old fossils with a mish-mash of human and ape characteristics have changed the way scientists think human-like features evolved.