The discovered skull (R) with an artist's rendering (L) of what Anamensis might have looked like Researchers have discovered a nearly complete 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ...

one of the first and few fossil ape skulls to be found. Their work at Olduvai Gorge had been interrupted by political uprisings in nearby Kenya, but late in the 1950s, they returned. The Leakeys ...

The discovery of an ancient ape skull may challenge the long-held belief that the ancestors of apes and humans came from Africa, a controversial new study says. The partial skull of the ape ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and environmental shifts. Fossil Homo sapiens had smaller temporal lobes ...

one of the first and few fossil ape skulls to be found. Their work at Olduvai Gorge had been interrupted by political uprisings in nearby Kenya, but late in the 1950s, they returned. The Leakeys ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

A new study, published in The Innovation, suspects that the skulls of Lufengpithecus ... and this may signal a rapid increase in the pace of ape and human locomotor evolution," said Harrison ...

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