Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Learn how a landmass in the Aegean sea might have helped humans move from Anatolia into Europe from the east.

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 study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

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 ...

The National Museum of Natural History is among the first eight Smithsonian sites the Trump administration announced it will review.

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...