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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...