TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A recent archaeological discovery in China is shaking the foundations of human history, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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 ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...