“The majority of palaeoanthropologists tend to assume that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans looked like a chimpanzee,” said anatomical scientist Sergio Almecija of the Stony ...

But with the advent of molecular studies it has become clear that chimpanzees share a more recent common ancestor with humans, and are thus more closely related to us than they are to gorillas (e ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient ...

Intersecting paths of muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside 1.5 million years ago suggest two of our early human ...

Instead, it's likely "the obstetrical dilemma started much earlier than the old hypothesis predicted and was present in the last common ancestor shared by chimps and humans," Caroline VanSickle ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...