When did primates first evolve? How long have cats been domesticated? When do wolves mature? What is the ancestor of horses? When do orangutans mate? When was animal behavior first discovered? When did Neanderthals evolve? When were wolves discovered?
Sahelanthropus was the earliest, dating7-6 million years ago. Orrorin lived about 6 million years ago, while Ardipithecus remains have been dated to 5.8-4.4 million years ago. At present, the vote is still out as to whether any of these three primates were in fact true hominins and if t...
Humans and monkeys are both primates. But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. ... But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor. What race was the first human? The San people of...
Barry Marshall not only did some of his work in secret, he continued to be blockaded even after he made his breakthrough. Marshall didn’t discover bacteria; he wasn’t trying convince colleagues of the importance of hand-washing; he did not develop antibiotics. All of that was part of an...
When did duck-billed dinosaurs go extinct? When did primates first appear? When did the predatory marsupials become extinct in South America? When did great apes first learn to communicate? What was the first animal to be domesticated?