Learn more about how researchers have discovered that chimps can combine calls in multiple ways to create new meanings, ...

Dr Fredrick Kyalo Manthi has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences —a recognition reserved for scientists who have made groundbreaking contributions to original research.

They first used ancestral reconstruction to derive the ancestral hominin and hominid CD4. Using pseudotyped viruses ... Similarly, building gorilla CD4 haplotype SNPs onto the hominin ancestor (as ...

Their findings can be summarized as follows: 1) Around 250,000 years ago, Emmarentia was inhabited by our hominid ancestors. These creatures appear to have died out. 2) Around 100,000 years ago, the ...

Just over 50 kilometers from Johannesburg, South Africa, lies Maropeng—the visitor center for the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the richest fossil-bearing regions on the ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images ...

History is a fascinating subject. The history of us humans spans over 300,000 years, and it's been marked by victories, ...

WASHINGTON — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that's true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

WASHINGTON — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place ...

Early Human Ancestors Used Their Hands to Both Climb Trees and Make Tools, New Study Shows WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for ...

NovaIscB is derived from a bacterial DNA cutter that belongs to a family of proteins called IscBs, which Zhang's lab discovered in 2021. IscBs are a type of OMEGA system, the evolutionary ...