On March 28, 1838, Charles Darwin paid a visit to the London Zoo. At age 29, he was far from the scientific celebrity he would eventually become. ... When Darwin Met Another Ape.

Darwin places humans all the way on the left on a branch that meets with that containing the apes, just above where the common ancestor between apes and the baboons, &c, would lie.

Now, though, Darwin's whole case can be advanced in terms of apes and monkeys, of chimps and gorillas, and of men and women. We know more about our own past than that of any other species.

Darwin turned out to be a fitting name for the “Ikea monkey,” who survived Internet fame, a contentious court battle and a move to a new home. On Dec. 9, 2012, the 6-month-old primate was ...

Darwin’s theory of natural selection (1859) showed that the closest ancestors of human beings were the great apes. And the idea that homo sapiens were descended from monkeys rapidly became part ...

A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major discoveries in hominin origins since Darwin's works and argues that fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and ...

Understanding Darwinism. In his book ‘The Descent of Man’ published in 1871, English naturalist Charles Darwin presented the idea that human beings and apes have a common ancestor.

New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but Eurasia. ... So mused Charles Darwin in his 1871 work, The Descent of Man.

Vought claimed: “For Charles Darwin, ‘primitive’ aboriginal peoples were the ‘missing link’ between apes and humans.” This is an absurdly false claim. First, the concept […] ...

To understand the power and scope of the ape insult, we need a dose of history. When I was an undergraduate at university, I learnt about racism and colonialism, particularly the influence of Charles ...