“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Step back in time to 3300 BCE and explore the Bronze Age, a period marked by the rise of early civilizations in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Learn about the cultures, innovations, and advancements in ...

They proposed a “river network” model of human evolution ... However, this broad label obscures the complexity of their evolutionary history. Genetic evidence reveals deep divergences within ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

The Human Evolution gallery will be closed between 19 and 23 May while we make some improvements to the cases. We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. Meet your ancient relatives, trace ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. At such a critical ...