Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
A new study is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution. Published on March 18, 2025, in the journal Nature Genetics, “A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral ...
Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...
A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...
A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...
He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...