“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Recent fossil discoveries have revealed that two million years ago, one of our distant human ancestors, Paranthropus robustus ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

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

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

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same ... Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... who were our mysterious human ancestors? Fossil evidence suggests ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.