New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

A University of Montpellier study published on September 1st in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported ...

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 ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution.

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

The National Museum of Natural History is among the first eight Smithsonian sites the Trump administration announced it will ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.