The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...
A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...
Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...
Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...
A new book offers a fascinating journey from insects to apes and a forceful rebuttal to bigotry showing what the incredible ...
Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...
Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.