Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

Despite a billion years of evolution separating humans from the baker’s yeast in their refrigerators, hundreds of genes from an ancestor that the two species have in common live on nearly unchanged in ...

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

The last common ancestor of apes and humans remains a mysterious animal. Dr. Mark Grabowski from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen ...

Now a team of scientists contends that our “last common ancestor,” as scientists call it, must have clearly resembled the looks and behavior of today’s chimpanzees much more than humans.

The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees may have had shoulders that were similar to those of modern African apes, researchers say. The finding supports the notion that the human lineage ...

The most recent common ancestor of all humanity lived just a few thousand years ago, according to a computer model of our family tree. Researchers have calculated that the mystery person, from ...

WASHINGTON -- A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.

Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? 'Extraordinary' Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old Date: May 19, 2009 Source: Public Library of Science Summary: Scientists have found a 47-million-year-old ...