Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.

If you follow news about human evolution, you’ve probably noticed that our ancestors are increasingly called hominins rather than hominids. Why the change? It’s the result of researchers revising how ...

Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICP), from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, directed by professor Salvador Moyà-Solà, publish this week in the prestigious scientific journal ...

Sequencing Hominidae Explore the intricacies of sequencing and comparative genetics between humans and great apes in this insightful article.

与其他人科（Hominidae）动物相比，人类拥有一系列独特的特征。而在人类进化出这些独特特征中，骨骼发挥了核心作用。例如我们用双足行走——这与骨盆结构的大幅改变有关；我们拥有异常发达的脑——这与扩大的颅腔有关。人类这些独特的骨骼特征，在形态层面已经 ...

Hominidae, Menschenartige, Fam. der Primates, die die Gatt. Ardipithecus, Australopithecus und Homo umfasst. In neueren Klassifikationen werden auch die Großen Menschenaffen (Fam. Pongidae) zu den H.