Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... who were our mysterious human ancestors? Fossil evidence suggests ...

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