Maybe looking to the past can give us clues. For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates ...

Maybe looking to the past can give us clues. For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates ...

1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although there are several early Miocene sites, many of their catarrhine taxa ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ( "The Solar System’s Passage through the Radcliffe Wave during the ...