In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

More than just mere cavemen, our Stone Age kin exhibited intelligence in surprising ways, making them more human than ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...