An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

Why can AI drive cars and airplanes, defeat chess masters, yet struggle to arrange dishes in a dishwasher? The answer lies ...

It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our understanding of human evolution.

— Rick Potts, Director of the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History Potts arrived as the museum’s outdated human evolution displays were being phased out.

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Harris draws upon extensive experience researching primate evolution in order to deliver a lively and thorough history of human evolution. Ancestors in Our Genome is the most complete discussion of ...

But research published in the journal Nature "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe", lead study author Rosa Huguet of Spain's University of Rovira i Virgili told a ...

Various institutions in Gauteng offer exhibitions on human evolution and fossils, including the University of the Witwatersrand, the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Maropeng Cradle of ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, seeking to convince visitors there’s nothing special about us as ...