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

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.

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

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 ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,”remarked Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of ...

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 ...

Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential new member of the human family who lived more than 1.1 million years ago, ...

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