The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

Findings made by Griffith University researchers show that early hominins made a major deep-sea crossing to reach the ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features.

The part-skeleton of this small-bodied, relatively small-brained female captured the public's imagination. Lucy the "paleo-rock star" took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking, human-like ...

A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

In a translated statement from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, an international team of researchers said that analysis of 63 human bone fragments—including ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and the ancient hominins would have been able to gather edible plants in ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

Homo Erectus (1.8 to 0.5 Million Years Ago) After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler.

(CN) — More than a million years ago, two ancient human species may have crossed paths on a lake shore, leaving behind footprints that provide evidence for long-hypothesized ideas about human ...