Shizuka, a seven-year-old female Sumatran orangutan, seen in a cage before being transferred to Indonesia at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. CREDIT: SOPA Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ...
Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery dates to nearly 476,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens ever appeared.
Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists. These ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Introduction -- Primates -- Prosimians -- New World Monkeys -- Old World Monkeys and Apes -- The Gibbons and Siamangs -- The Great Apes -- Dryopithecines -- Hominid Adaptations -- The Dental Apparatus ...
Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...