By standing upright, hominids had less need of hair to keep heat out, except on the head and shoulders. The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids.

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.

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At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Researchers in Australia recently discovered a 2 million year old skull that gives us more clues about our evolution as a ...

A 50-year-old study from the Journal of Human Evolution on the social evolution of hominids (of which we humans are the sole survivors) unpacks your armrest and seat-kicking misadventures without ...

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...

The other branch—hominids with increasingly smaller back ... anamensis level, the view on hominid evolution in the Middle Awash goes temporarily black. The yellowish green clay we were walking ...

And although she was among the oldest hominids known when she was discovered ... where I have contributed a number of articles on human evolution and they approached me and asked me if I would ...

Biology of animals from first organized multi-cell through Hominids; the origin and evolution of the metazoa phyla, their physiology, development, ecology, behavior, natural history, and systematics.

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold ... Spoor F, Leakey MG, Leakey LN (2005) Correlation of cranial and mandibular prognathism in extant and fossil hominids. Transactions of the Royal Society of South ...