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.

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 ...

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 ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.