This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...