The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...
The tool was discovered at an archaeological site in Boxgrove, near Chichester in West Sussex, England. It’s an extensively excavated site, and numerous tools made of flint, bone, and antler have been ...
The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...
(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...