Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to ...

Joseph Henrich, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, whose research and writings span anthropology, biology, and economics, has followed an unconventional academic and ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

This blog was co-authored by Lene Rachel Andersen and Joe Michalski. In her book, Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World, Lene Rachel Andersen traces the evolution of culture and human ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...