When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

A 10-minute journey through Earth's human evolution gives you a quick tour of how we, as humans, came to be. It all started ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

The island of Flores has guarded one of science’s greatest mysteries: could it be that the Flores man did not actually die out completely?

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

Fact of the Day is a simple yet fascinating way to learn something new daily. In this world, there is an endless amount of ...

A hypothesis suggesting that ancient humans came from the prehistoric Indonesian archipelago, or Nusantara, is part of a ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...