Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

The launch event and signing ceremony for the English version of "Human Destiny: Institutional Governance" for international ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

It marks the first time significant remains older than 1 million years old have been discovered in Western Europe.