Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

A pest is traditionally defined as an organism harmful to humans or human interests. The term also applies to humans ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage - a discovery ...

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden chapter in human evolution, showing our origins trace back to the interbreeding of two ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New South ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

opens a new chapter in the history of hominids. Pink, whose partially reconstructed face shows primitive features, could be a direct ancestor of the human populations that inhabited Europe long before ...