But because the skulls of young humans and young apes are so similar, and because the skull was so different from other found fossils, including the phony Piltdown Man, other scientists ignored ...

Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old fossil, has been found to be related to human linage after many years of heated ...

Although Lucy's skull was incomplete ... pelvis indicate that she probably had a rather large belly, like a modern ape, reflecting an adaptation to a relatively low-quality, high-bulk diet.

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...