The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes ... a fifth of the primate tree of life unresolved. Why we need complete evolutionary trees The ...

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 ...

noted that the study points to a three-step evolution of human bipedalism. The first step is characterized by the earliest apes navigating through the trees in a manner resembling certain aspects ...

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 ...

Or, to use a family tree analogy, the common ancestor ... Unfortunately, despite the number of fossil apes discovered, the ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

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 ...

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.