The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution ... some genetic distinctions among humans and apes in such areas as the immune ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine ... S.A. The evolution of human genetic and phenotypic ...

Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the common ancestry of humans and apes.

An international research team has mapped the genomes of six ape species ... duplications than humans and other primates do. For the first time, researchers have been able to study the genetic ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

Of all primates living today, only we humans walk fully ... afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that ...