Most primates have semiconcealed ovulation, which could be taken as evidence that the common ancestor had semiconcealed ovulation ( still found today in gorillas ), and that subsequently fully concealed ovulation evolved in humans, while fully " advertised " ovulation evolved in chimpanzees ( see Homininae and " Why is Sex Fun ? " ).
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Later discoveries led to revised classifications, with the great apes then united with humans ( now in subfamily Homininae ) as members of family Hominidae Further discoveries indicated that gorillas and chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to orangutans, leading to their ( gorillas and chimpanzees ) placement in subfamily Homininae as well.
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Later discoveries led to revised classifications, with the great apes then united with humans ( now in subfamily Homininae ) as members of family Hominidae Further discoveries indicated that gorillas and chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to orangutans, leading to their ( gorillas and chimpanzees ) placement in subfamily Homininae as well.
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The increase has been seen as larger human brain volume as we progressed along the human timeline of evolution ( see Homininae ), starting from about 600 cm 3 in " Homo habilis " up to 1500 cm 3 in " Homo sapiens neanderthalensis " which is the hominid with the biggest brain size.
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First, their larger brain size, and second, the presence of tools indicates that the large brains were capable of more complex thought processes not seen in the Australopithecines . " Which sort of makes it sound like the " experiments " may just have been the reasoning that they had 1 ) tools and 2 ) larger brains than other Homininae which did not have tools.
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Scientific study of human evolution is concerned, primarily, with the development of the genus " Homo " ( hominids as well, i . e . other " great apes "; these include " Australopithecus ", an important ancestor of humans, and our current as well as extinct relatives among the Homininae subfamily : chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and the related extinct hominins.
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Humans and close relatives including the tribes Hominini and Gorillini form the subfamily Homininae ( see classification graphic below ) . ( A few researchers go so far as to refer the chimpanzees and the gorillas to the genus " Homo " along with humans . ) But, it is those fossil relatives more closely related to humans than the chimpanzees that represent the especially close members of the human family, and without necessarily assigning subfamily or tribal categories.
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However, this is not the first species of homininae : the first species of genus " Homo ", " Homo habilis ", evolved in East Africa at least 2 million years ago, and members of this species populated different parts of Africa in a relatively short time . " Homo erectus " evolved more than 1.8 million years ago, and by 1.5 million years ago had spread throughout Europe and Asia.
