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 ...

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 ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

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 ...

The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape family members were living in the trees of East African ... of early hominin evolution following the genetic ...

Pampush found that the angles that define the chin changed rapidly during recent human evolution but not elsewhere in the primate family tree—a clear sign of evolutionary pressure.

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.

It also shows that these arboreal mammals -- an extinct family known as mixodectids -- and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary ... trees likely shared with other early ...