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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.