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.

Archeological research into hominid artifacts Paleolithic hominids and their development of tools The evolution of hominids and modern humans Human migration out of ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

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 ...

Anthropologists have traditionally relied on modern-day ethnography to determine what early humans gathered, based on the ...

Recent discoveries about these ancestors raise questions about our evolution. At the heart of human history, the Australopithecines, who lived between four million and one million years before our era ...

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 ...