Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

Over time, women can change the evolutionary definition of maleness ... the females.So one of the things that had to happen in human evolution was to solve the infanticide problem.

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

Understanding human evolution through the study of whale evolution Brief definition and history of mammals How did land-based mammals return to the sea? Fossils from "transitional species" trace ...

The record of evolution in our own genus, Homo, is already full enough to show we cannot separate ourselves with hard lines. Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human ...

Rapid evolution describes genetic changes that occur over only a few generations [2]. Rapid evolution is important because if a species cannot adapt quickly enough to environmental changes ...

Aa Aa Aa Reconstructing the evolution of human development from a severely limited fossil record may be viewed as both a fundamental challenge and a promising field of research. Life history ...