"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

Great Apes Joke Around, Suggesting Humor Is Older Than Humans ...

An archaeologist believes the tiny humanoid species Homo floresiensis may still exist in Indonesia. Here's how they could ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

Scientists piece together genetic links between chimpanzee groups over thousands of years and discovered a surprisingly ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and ...

Given that apes are humanity’s closest relatives in ... These creatures are captivating precisely because they are so unlike and like humans, and one can’t help but wonder what goes on behind ...

Discoveries at an 8.7 million-year-old site could shake up the whole way science traditionally sees the birthplace of mankind ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.Dart was ...

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

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...