The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same ... Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...