In a new paper in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers from Chaffey College, New York University, and California State University San Bernardino find the distinctive forelimb morphology of the ...

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking roots. The human hand has evolved over millions of years to make the most of ...

The chimp with the most human-like gait and body type walked upright more efficiently than he knuckle-walked a finding that study co-author Herman Pontzer calls a snapshot of how this evolution may ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like chimpanzees, or walked upright, like humans, may have been settled – but not ...

Editor's note: This event has been changed. Mano Singham, physicist and retired director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University, will ...