The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

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

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

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

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended ...

Jan. 16, 2025 — A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research ..

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

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