2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

These discoveries skew the established dateline for human evolution and question if the first faltering steps of the earliest ...

At some stage the hominids split off from the apes and began to develop one of the first and perhaps most important human characteristics - the ability to walk upright. The earliest ancestors of ...

where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These prehistoric beings were far removed from the modern humans that would come to dominate the planet. Early hominids, like Australopithecus ...