Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

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

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but ...

Responses to a column by Thomas L. Friedman about cooperation between the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. Also: A ...

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our ...

Harvard scientists have discovered new evolutionary changes in pelvic structure that allowed the first humans to walk upright ...

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