If further fossil finds confirm that Danuvius and perhaps other ancient tree-dwelling apes stood ... exciting piece to the puzzle” of ancient ape evolution, Williams says.

Our immediate evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the "lesser apes" (siamangs and ... it to forage in the trees. The canine teeth were probably ...

Consider the great ape example I worked through with an Excel spreadsheet (link above). These are Jukes-Cantor distances based on number of mtDNA sequence differences. [See Glossary and pp. 91-93 of ...

The tree, the most complete of its kind, shows the evolutionary timescale of the whole order of primates, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. In the following guest editorial ...

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 ...

The ape had arms suited to hanging in the trees, but human-like legs ... questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans," said Prof Madelaine Böhme ...

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 ...

That suggests that Buronius ate leaves high in trees and sweet fruits in the ... Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary family that includes modern chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans.

Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means ... Wheeler also said, might explain the evolution of the human as the naked ape. It obviated the need for complete body hair.