Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from hominids and the significance of this distinction. The content covers the ...

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

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Bovids: Members of the family Bovidae that includes antelopes ... Progress and challenges in reconstructing early hominid environments. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50, 20-58 (2007).

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic ...

Where it slots into the evolutionary family tree is unclear ... the gradual interchange and admixture of genes from many hominid species, referred to in the current literature as “a braided ...

The complexity of this system suggests either that there is indeed something special about hominid communication – that complex communication was already emerging in our last common ancestor ...

The asteroid was named after the paleontologist Donald Johanson, who in 1974 co-discovered the first identified example of previously unknown type of hominid ... asteroids, a family of asteroids ...

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.