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The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

The study of gestural communication in great apes has provided a rich insight into the evolutionary roots of human language. Apes typically employ an extensive repertoire of innate gestures that are ...

New, higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without the guidance of the human reference genome. The effort to reduce "humanizing" discovery bias in great ape genomes ...

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 ...

Orangutan Win Gayo in the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem, Sumatra. Source: The Orangutan Project/with permission. I recently learned about two books by Leif Cocks, founder of The Orangutan Project and a ...