What makes an ape an ape? What makes a human a human? What features originally united us? The answers lie deep in the past, some 18 million years ago, when the last common ancestor of humans and apes ...

THE second season‘s work of the British-Kenya Miocene Expedition in the Kavirondo region of Lake Victoria has culminated in one of the most important discoveries yet made there. Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, ...

[Editor¿s note: John Gurche reconstructed the fossil apes featured in an article on ape evolution from the August issue of Scientific American titled "Planet of the Apes," by David Begun.] I was very ...

The ape in the tree is Proconsul, a fossil ape known exclusively from East Africa. It has many things to recommend it as a subject for a book: it is the earliest known ape in the fossil record (dating ...