Chimpanzees are primates of the genus Pan which consists of the common chimpanzee and the bonobo. They are a part of the tribe Hominini, which also includes humans, and the family Hominidae where all great apes are included. Like their closest living relatives the modern humans, chimpanzees ar...
Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago Two incisors that may belong to Homo erectus come from Yuanmou, south China, and are dated to 1.7Ma 2 ; the next-oldest evidence is an H. erectus cranium from Lantian (Gongwangling)-which has recently been ...
For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at ...
Bednarik (Australia) 232 RAR Debate 232 Neoteny, female hominin and cognitive evolution, by Ahmed Achrati 239 The role of male and female in reproduction, and understanding of sexual selection when applied to human artistic propensities, by M. A. C. Varella, J. H. B. P. Ferreira and A...
For decades, a piece of his skull sat in a Russian archive - our most decisive proof that the most evil man of the 20th century died in 1945. When scientists finally tested the bone in 2009, they discovered it belonged to a woman under 40. The evidence we trusted for over 60 years ...