"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery. "We can physically experience the same trees they did." I’ve had many memorable encounters with ...

Early human ancestors may have learned to walk upright on two legs up in the trees rather than on the firm ground of Africa's ancient savannah. A first-of-its-type study led by researchers at the Max ...

Lisa Vogele The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society will host professional genealogist Lisa Vogele, who will present Travel Your Tree: Walking in ...

Walking on two legs is likely to have first arisen among apes living in trees, rather than ground-dwelling prehistoric ancestors of humans, reports research published in the June 1st issue of the ...

A team of scientists has combined modern and ancient genomes to build a new “genealogy of everyone,” in an achievement that sets the groundwork for future studies into our evolution and global spread.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The traditional idea that our ancestors ...

A 62-million- year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico confirms that early primate ancestors preferred to dwell in trees. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science reports that the ...

Credit: Courtesy The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society invites the public to its free monthly meeting on Saturday, ...

Our ancient ancestors had to deal with tree-climbing toddlers, new research has revealed. The three million year old foot of an ancient child nicknamed "Selam" suggests she was built for scaling ...

Many adoptees are submitting their DNA for analysis in hopes of finding their parents and other ancestors, only to get results that further confuse them. They might have matches for several cousins of ...