A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Culture Drives Human Evolution More Than Genetics June 2, 2021 — Researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins. ... The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution.

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

Origins drops at a time when the state of evolution education in the U.S. is shaky at best. This issue is exemplified by two recent articles at NPR by Barbara King, emerita professor of ...

Evolutionary Psychology Inherited Psychology and History in Human Social Evolution Harvey Whitehouse's 'Inheritance' explains who we are and who we could be.

Discover How Domesticating Dogs Influenced Human Evolution and Other Natural History Programs This May. Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural ...