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

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Two men were convicted of human smuggling that killed 53 people in an overheated tractor-trailer, in deadliest migrant ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...