Adaptive shifts associated with human origins are brought to light as we examine the human
fossil record and study our own genome and that of our closest ape relatives. However, the …

Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics
with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common …

The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a
new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric …

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TWo decades ago paleoanthropol ogists were locked in a debate about the origin of the
earliest humans. The disagreement centered on whether the fossil Ramapithecus was an …

The continuity of phylogenetic descent requires that sister taxa originate in the same place
and at the same time. Resolving phylogenetic relationships can therefore aid in …

In the quest for the facts about hu man evolution, we molecular geneti cists have engaged in
two major debates with the paleontologists. Argu ing from their fossils, most paleontolo gists …

This volume brings together information about recent discoveries and current theories
concerning the origin and early evolution of anthropoid primates monkeys, apes, and …

Humans are animals, mammals, primates, and hominoids, and thus we share extensive
similarities with each of these groups, especially our closest cousins, the apes. But we are …

New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the
origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the …