Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.
An artist’s reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, a species that can be called a hominid or a hominin. Image courtesy of Wikicommons If you follow news about human evolution, you’ve probably ...
Hominidae, Menschenartige, Fam. der Primates, die die Gatt. Ardipithecus, Australopithecus und Homo umfasst. In neueren Klassifikationen werden auch die Großen Menschenaffen (Fam. Pongidae) zu den H.