A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Biological anthropology is the sub-discipline of anthropology that studies human evolution and variation. Specific emphasis is on mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

This term refers to early human ancestors who are associated ... with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, told Newsweek. Recent research has indicated that tool ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

The Anthropology Department at the University ... They have studied human biology, population health, and primatology. The combination of culture and biology, evolution and history emphasized in our ...

In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ... to explore how their findings relate to other discoveries in anthropology, such as fossil evidence from Africa that suggests ...