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

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human ... For many years after they were first identified in 1856, scientists thought Neanderthals were unintelligent, cave-dwelling brutes who ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did the ability to talk have on brains, behaviour and social evolution?

Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone ... to species including modern humans and Neanderthals — replaced H. habilis in the region ...

This reconstruction of a Neanderthal man’s features is based on the fossils found at the French site of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. Paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès created the sculpture. Neanderthals ...

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later.

A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research ...

When Lucy’s, a homey New York tavern, closed down and underwent a renovation, some longtime patrons feared the worst. Jon Neidich, a nightlife impresario, left, sits with Ludwika Mickevicius at ...

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the singer/songwriter opens up about her new album 'Forever Is a Feeling' and the future of Boygenius Shervin Lainez Lucy Dacus has never shied away from ...

After Lucy Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, an inquiry was launched to ensure lessons were learnt. The Thirlwall Inquiry ...