Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

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 ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

A jawbone like this was never expected to matter so much. It came up from the seabed off Taiwan, quiet and unremarkable at ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors met ...