DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

For example, humans and our closest living relatives ... to a deeper and more refined understanding of human evolution in the context of apes, not by delivering definitive answers, but by laying ...

Given that more people believe in extraterrestrial beings, ghosts, evil spirits, and angels than in evolution as the process whereby humans and other organisms developed on Earth, the pedagogic ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the common ancestry of humans and apes.

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Contrary to the popularised image of mankind ‘arising’ from apes, modern humans – Homo sapiens ... known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species ...

Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary family that includes modern chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans ... perhaps even forced, the evolution of diverse ape lineages,” Böhme says.