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 ...

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 ...

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

Does evolution happen slowly or quickly ... Adaptive radiations and extinctions -- The rise and fall of Miocene Apes Phylogenetic trees based on genetic data cannot reveal much about what might ...

Consider the great ape example I worked through with an Excel spreadsheet ... 91-93 of Hall, B.G. 2001. Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy. Sinauer, for more on evolutionary models of nucleotide change and ...

in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller canines, thicker and larger cheek teeth, and more ...

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.