Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that suggests the first humans emerged from African. Dr Huan Shi, from China, proposed evolution began in East Asia where fossils ...

Researchers have made breakthrough discoveries about human migration patterns across Europe during the first millennium AD.

New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Evidence for the origins of complex language can be found in creative two-word insults such as busy-body and kill-joy ...