Every journey has a beginning. Ours shaped the world. Origins: The Journey of Humankind is a cinematic exploration of how ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Trace the remarkable origin story of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species. Where did humans come from, and what makes us unique? Discover the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens ...

Two macaques learned to keep time with various songs, which might point to how humans got their sense of rhythm. But some ...

Lucy McDowell, one of the producers of the “Search for the First Human” film, takes us behind the scenes on three shoots: the site in Kenya’s Tugen Hills where fossils belonging to Orrorin tugenensis ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time. Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed “Thorin ...