Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...
How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...
Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...
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 ...
New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...
Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...
The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...
Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...
Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our ...
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 ...