Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

The Hungarian writer delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in his own language at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 7.

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 ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...