In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

The enduring image we have of our human ancestors is that of a walking ape ... world’s most important sites for understanding human evolution. Rick Potts, Director of the Smithsonian Institution ...

indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of ...

"This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate meat ...

The enduring image we have of our human ancestors is that of a walking ape ... world’s most important sites for understanding human evolution. Rick Potts, Director of the Smithsonian Institution ...