Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

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 ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights Emily Driehaus 50 years ...

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

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. The first-ever published research out of ...

A wave of new genetic research is transforming our understanding of human evolution, revealing that Homo sapiens likely arose from multiple interconnected populations in Africa rather than a single ...

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 ...

Mount Everest, the Sahara Desert, and the Arctic Circle — these are just some of the extremes humans experience. But how have humans evolved to live in such a broad range of environments? In this ...

Trace the remarkable origin story of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species. Where did humans come from, and what makes us unique? Discover the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens ...