As Girard-Buttoz points out, this suggests either “there is indeed something special about hominid communication” or “that we have underestimated the complexity of communication in other animals as ...

named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson who co-discovered the Lucy hominid fossil in northern Ethiopia in 1974. Images of the asteroid Lucy took as it approached the three-mile ...

Parts of the figure were created with BioRender. (B) Cladogram depicting VOCs and computationally designed constructs (red triangles). Branch lengths are proportional to the temporal order of ...

In a classroom at Millard South High School this month, students cut out photos of candy as they assembled a cladogram in a freshman biology course. Down the hall, students in an AP Statistics ...

The newly discovered hominid was named Neanderthal—thal is Old German for valley—and has fascinated anthropologists ever since. It was first thought that Neanderthals may have resembled apes ...

It’s in the nature of paleoanthropology to undergo constant revision, as was made clear this past summer, when a new contender in the quest for the earliest hominid was announced. A six- to ...

This study presents an important finding on how lentiviral infection has driven the diversification of the HIV/SIV entry receptor CD4. Using a combination of molecular evolution approaches coupled ...