Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...
Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...
A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...
How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...
For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...