Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

The display of human remains in museums has long been a contentious issue. Last week, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR) published a report on the African human ...

Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in 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.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Explore the origins of human language and its capacity dating back at least 135,000 years, reshaping how we interact.

The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...