Our species’ origins story comes from North Africa, to be exact, the country of Morocco. When the researchers first came ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

All That We've Learned About Human Origins Recently — and What We Still Want to Know Ancient humans are far older, and were more widespread, than we thought. What else is there to learn?

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals ...

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize ...

Human origin stories have often been used for nefarious purposes. That doesn’t mean they are worthless.

Maya Jasanoff reviews “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins,” by Stefanos Geroulanos.