Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

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

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about ...