This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. At this point it’s a truism that the story of ...

Four lifelike reconstructions of prehistoric humans have been unveiled — including a model of a species often dubbed "the hobbit," which, as an adult, was about the same height as a modern 4-year-old.

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...