As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

本期推荐：为探索人类双足行走的演化背景，研究人员对440万年前的地猿始祖种（Ardipithecus ramidus）距骨（ARA-VP-6/500-023）开展 ...

In a far-reaching reordering of human evolution, researchers report today the discovery of the oldest hominid skeleton, a fairly complete 4.4-million-year-old female from Ethiopia 1. The discovery ...

New-found fossils have fueled controversy surrounding the earliest days of our hominid ancestors, and those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees' and humans' ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...