South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...

Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans as as cleverer, more intellectual and caring than our ancestral predecessors. From ...

Matt Tocheri, Canada research chair in human origins at Lakehead University in Ontario, said he wasn’t convinced that the ...

At the Smithsonian | December 28, 2023. Thirteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2023. Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human ...

Discoveries in the fields of human origins, paleoanthropology, cognitive science, and behavioral biology have accelerated in the past few decades. We occasionally bump into news reports that new ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Here is an origin story about origin stories. Once upon a time, we knew where we came from: Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Fall. Then came modern science, modern doubt. Geology ...

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