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

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

This discovery led to the excavation of bones from 15 separate skeletons, shedding new light on the history of Homo naledi ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...