The complex unfolding of human evolution over the ... story in the larger volume of primate evolutionary history. Humans, and our hominin ancestors, belong to a family of great apes that includes ...

Our immediate evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the ... foot that allowed it to forage in the trees. The canine teeth were probably large ...

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks and provides a genome-based perspective on their evolutionary history. Professor Juan Moles, from the Faculty of Biology ...

Recent research has suggested that twins were actually quite common back during primate evolution ... sizes of species across the mammalian family tree and then used mathematical algorithms ...

Mary, Richard, and Meave continued to work on discovering human origins and untangling the primate family tree. In the 1970s ... He confirmed that human evolution began in Africa, pushed back ...

First Family: toe bones Toe bones found among the First Family are long compared to those of humans, but they don't curve forward toward the heel as they do in modern tree-climbing primates.

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as ... consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two ...