Sentences with phrase «of all living apes»

The fossil revealed that the group was close to the origins of living apes and humans.

A 13 - million - year - old infant's skull, discovered in Africa in 2014, comes from a new species of ape that may not be far removed from the common ancestor of living apes and humans.

This showed researchers that bipedal walking was a key trait of humans and our ancestors, the group called hominins — but not of living apes and their ancestors.

The illegal trade of live apes — animals including gorillas and orangutans — is much, much bigger than scientists thought, according to BBC.

«I'd go out on a limb and say not only that [interbreeding] played an important role in the evolution of all living apes, but that it shaped the evolution of extinct ones as well.»

Based on the new analysis, «it probably had a laugh that was very noisy and unstructured» and was «similar to the laughter of living apes,» says Davila Ross.

This computerized technique simultaneously performs millions of comparisons on hundreds of corresponding dimensions of the bones of living apes, humans, and the Australopithecines.

N. alesi and its close relatives probably evolved some time just before the common ancestor of all living apes.

«This skull comes from an ancient group of apes that existed in Africa for over 10 million years and was close to the evolutionary origin of living apes and humans,» says Nengo, of Stony Brook University in New York and De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif..

Researchers suspect the youngster represents an ape group close to the origin of living apes and humans.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

None of the changes that apes have evolved to stiffen their hands for suspension and vertical climbing were present, so its locomotion did not resemble that of any living ape.

A newly discovered fossil ape skull is providing clues about the common ancestor of all living apes, including our own species.

A 13 million - year - old skull from Kenya, described in August in Nature, hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes (including humans) looked like.

The general shape of that part of the frontal brain in humans differs greatly from that of living apes and fossil hominids dating to at least 700,000 to 1 million years years ago, Hurst added.

The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like.