They have encouraged scientists in the belief that they will someday fill the fossil gap all the way back to the hominid-ape divide. They have already afforded a glimpse of hominids that were so ...

Hominid evolution was looking less like a straight line and ... White has argued that simply finding some differences between hominids that lived at the same time doesn't always indicate a vast ...

called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize ...

An excellent example of this shuffling is the change in usage of the term "hominid." Traditionally, only human ancestors were placed in the family Hominidae (and thereby referred to as hominids).

Hominoid primates including Dryopithecus in Spain and Hungary, Oreopithecus in Italy, and Ouranopithecus in Greece flourished in the Miocene, approximately 10-7 million years ago. This volume examines ...