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

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

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

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to 3.9 million years ago. Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet ...

Here's why that's normal. They found that the ancestors of all modern humans split off from a mystery population 1.5 million years ago and then reconnected with them 300,000 years ago. This unknown ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Many studies have tried to place that first woman in time and on the map. And from what is known so far, she lived in ...

Layered over the first image, the caption reiterates the idea that it's "impossible to have pictures of 9 generations of ...

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 ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and chimpanzees. This hypothesis has since been refuted.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...