每年年底，Science杂志都会按惯例评选出十大科学进展。今天Science杂志公布了该刊评选出的2009年度十大科学进展，其中名列第一位的是对Ardipithecus ramidus（始祖种地猿）的化石进行阐释的研究，其余几项研究（与生物相关）包括：雷帕霉素、植物的ABA受体、基因 ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

本期推荐：为探索人类双足行走的演化背景，研究人员对440万年前的地猿始祖种（Ardipithecus ramidus）距骨（ARA-VP-6/500-023）开展 ...

New-found fossils have fueled controversy surrounding the earliest days of our hominid ancestors, and those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees' and humans' ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Hominid refers to the family of primates that includes all species on the “human ” side of the evolutionary tree after the split from chimpanzees.. Two reports on the extraordinary discovery appeared ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...