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

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

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 ...

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

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

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 ...

Much about human evolution remains debated ... The authors said their work illustrates the complexity of our shared history.

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...