Fossil of great ape sheds light on evolution Date: May 1, 2013 Source: University of Missouri-Columbia Summary: An integrative anatomy expert says the shape of an 11.8-million-year-old specimen's ...

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But just as the Apes movies concern evolution, so does the very concept of a franchise that’s endured for fifty years. It turns out that an ape in 1963 is much different than an ape in ’74, or ...

Filling in the gibbon lineage could help researchers understand what the ancestor to all apes looked like, but the problem is that there aren’t all that many good specimens in the fossil record ...

Researchers say they have unearthed a13-million-year-old fossil in Spain that could represent the last common ancestor of humans and great apes.

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. A report on ...

[Editor¿s note: John Gurche reconstructed the fossil apes featured in an article on ape evolution from the August issue of Scientific American titled "Planet of the Apes," by David Begun.

The researchers think the common ancestor shared by great apes and tiny gibbons might have looked a lot like this new ... New fossil could reshape our understanding of ape evolution. October 29, ...

An ancient primate’s partial skeleton, discovered in northeastern Spain, is poised to downsize ape evolution in a big way. This 11.6-million-year-old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its ...

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