There are at least scattered indications that the reviewers may be treading carefully in reshaping America’s core stories.

The 5,000-year-old craft connects ancient kings to YouTube stars, frontier women to museum artists, and protests to memorials ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further evidence ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

The exact origin of human life is a topic that has not one but many well-known theories by experts. While some scientists believe that Africa is the place where humanity actually began, others have ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

The Brown University music scholar embraces cultures, storytelling and soundscapes to advance “fierce expression” through composition and her dedication to her work with students.

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

These are the points at which diagnostic traits first appear in the fossil record. For this reason, these later dates are what archaeologists call the origin point of a clade – which means Homo ...