(Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans plus all our extinct ancestors and relatives since the split from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.) The Oldowan tools ...

Species: Pan troglodytes; P. paniscus Genome size: 3 billion base pairs; 2.9 billion base pairs Both sequenced in the last two years, the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo (P. paniscus) ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...