By standing upright, hominids had less need of hair to keep heat out, except on the head and shoulders. The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids.

The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Kordos, L. Phyletic affinities and functional convergence in Dryopithecus and other Miocene and living hominids. In Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations.

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but ...

The hominids were mistakenly believed to have ... outlook in the scientific community toward the history of our species' ...

This discovery contrasts with the idea that meat consumption played a central role in the early evolution of hominids. Australopithecus, unlike Neanderthals, did not hunt large mammals. Researchers ...