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

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

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.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western ... at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain. Homo erectus arose around 2 million ...

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 ...