The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

Researchers say they found 400,000-year-old evidence of a hearth and tools at what used to be pond site where Neanderthals lived or camped in England.