Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.
"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...
While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
The adults of this group varied tremendously ... afarensis was a critical species in the story of human evolution, and likely the common ancestor to all later branches of humanity, including ...
Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...