Early Apes to “Hominization” (35 to 8 Million Years Ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans ...

"This book is about the irreducibility of human evolution to purely biological properties and processes, for human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...