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Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

The discovery of a new ape species that lived in Egypt 17 million years ago is "reshaping" the understanding of evolution. The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have ...

Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...