Gavin Hellier / Anakena beach, monolithic giant stone Moai statues of Ahu Nau Nau, four of which have topknots, Isla de Pascua / Easter Island, Rapa Nui, Chile 2008

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875..

Paul D Stewart / Engraving of an ape-like cave man accompanying an article by Boitard in the French 'Magasin Universel' (April 1838). This is the earliest reconstruction of a pre-historic human. It is striking that it...

Norbert Wu / Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) living fossil, ancestor of amphibians and land vertebrates, Comoros Islands

Eric Baccega / Peter de Sausmarez, here with his ancestor's portraits. His family has lived on the island since 1120 and he is the last seignior who still lives in his ancestral property: Sausmarez Manor and Gardens...

Albert Lleal / Huminid (Pierolapithecus catalaunicus) skull, believed to be the last ancestor common to all modern great apes and humans, from the Miocene Epoch, Spain

Bernard Castelein / Pre-budhistic statue 'Bn' depecting female ancestor, Jharkot, Mustang, Nepal

Bernard Castelein / Pre-budhistic statue 'Bn' depecting male ancestor, Jharkot, Mustang, Nepal

Doug Perrine / Fossil of Salmon shark tooth, 40m-years-old, ancestor of Porbeagle shark.

DAVID TIPLING / Red junglefowl {Gallus gallus} Bandhavgarh NP, India. Ancestor of domestic chicken

Norbert Wu / Zoanthid (Zoanthus sp) probably all cloned from single ancestor, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico

Norbert Wu / Mudskipper (Periophthalmus koelreuteri) fish lives out of water much of the time, ancestor to amphibians, Thailand

Rod Williams / Grey junglefowl male {Gallus sonneratii} from India - ancestor of domestic chicken

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. The type sp...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of perforated Cromagnon 30,000 ybp ornaments (shell, ivory), by Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. Th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of cave man protects his mate and child from a marauding cave bear. He wields a hafted axe (from a later period) before a trophy skull of irish elk. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schu...

Paul D Stewart / Pithecanthropus europeaus alalus (european speechless ape-man) by Gabriel Max, 1894, reproduced as Photogravure Plate 29 in Ernst Haeckel 'Naturliche Schopfungs-Geschichte' (Natural History of Creatio...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 illustration of Charles Darwin in tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right) by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in the periodical 'Simplicissimus' 15th February 1909. This for...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 'On Darwin's hundredth Birthday' Illustration of Charles Darwin in heavenly tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right). Chromolithograph by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistorische Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by H...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of gibbon, orangutan and chimpanzee. 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang', 'Der Hooloch' and 'Der Shimpanzee' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistor...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gibbon (Hylobates lar), 1812 copperplate engraving of a 'lar or long armed ape' (gibbon) from Pantalogia New Cyclopedia, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster St. London. Few large...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration portrait of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). 1809 'Black Oran Otan' copper engraving from 'Zoological Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution'. This is a reprint of Tyson's first figur...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of male Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1795 'The Orang Outang, or Wild Man of the Woods' (sic). J. Frid Gmelin and Carl Linnaeus (posthumous). 'A Genuine and Universal System of Natural Hist...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of female Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1795 'A Domesticated Female Orang Outang' (sic). Frid Gmelin and Carl Linnaeus (posthumous). 'A Genuine and Universal System of Natural History compr...

Paul D Stewart / Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). The ape is contrasted to 'Hairy Esau' in this folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of mythical Papio and man-headed beast. Published in Amsterdam in 1673 by Jacob Von Meurs for Arnoldus Montanusa 'De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld' after the first book related to America b...

Paul D Stewart / Tableau to accompany Professor Agassiz opening sketch on 'The provinces of the animal world and their relationship to the types of man'. From Dr. Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon's 'Types of Mankind'...

Paul D Stewart / M. Boitard's drawing of a simian fossil man was published after his death in the 1861 book 'Paris Avant Les Hommes' (engraving by Moreau). The book places his time-travelling author in other epochs to...