Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

For years, the dominant explanation for human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral population in Africa. While scientists have long agreed that Homo sapiens ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Scientists examine DNA evidence connected to early human ancestors. The video explains how researchers study the finding ...

For two decades, scientists have thought that early modern humans (Homo sapiens) descended from a single lineage. But new genetic research suggests that our origins are far more complex. Scientists ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Tool-assisted foraging may have been the impetus for the earliest beginning of the evolution of cumulative culture. Early hominins, 3.4 to 2 million years ago, likely relied on foraging strategies ...