The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species.

An ape fossil found in Turkey may controversially suggest that the ancestors of African apes and humans first evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa, a research team says in a new study.

New scans of the inside of Australopithecus skulls reveal these extinct hominins had surprisingly ape-like brains that developed more like human brains. Our brains take on a distinctive structure ...

Here’s how it works. More than 11 million years ago, an oddball ape equipped with human-like legs and robust ape-like arms clambered across tree limbs, possibly escaping feline predators.

Environment, not evolution, might underlie some human-ape differences. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 07 / 190715094847.htm ...

Humans may be less inclined to read themselves into the genomes of great apes, now that less “humanized” ape genomes have been assembled. The newly assembled genomes, one for the chimpanzee ...

We're not so different, but scientists have learned more about ape genetics, setting the stage for even more research. Like chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, humans are a kind of ape.

Higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without guidance of the human reference genome. They provide a clearer view of genetic differences that arose as humans ...

Still, Huxley’s work made it starkly clear that humans were a Great Ape, closer to our African kin than our East Asian ape cousins, the orangutan. It was unclear, however, which of the hundreds ...

WASHINGTON – A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science ...