In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth ... data are consistent with an African origin for our species, the Aurignacian has no clear antecedents ...

The journey ends with modern humans as the only surviving human species in the world today. Along the way, visitors can see star specimens from the Museum collections, and get to grips with some of ...