Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Four sets of intersecting footprints from 1.5 million years ago indicate for the first time that a big-toothed branch of ...

13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... More Evidence That Europe's ...

New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

Gifting began in Africa, when the first humans like us emerged. It then evolved as people migrated and was adapted to fit different cultures. Early examples involved the transfer of cattle or ...

These findings hint at a remarkably different life for these early Americans, one in which they may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlands with enormous beasts. "There was this ...

The genomes carried evidence of Neanderthal ancestry. Researchers determined that the ancestors of those early humans who lived in Ranis and the surrounding area likely encountered and made babies ...