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

The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

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

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

The newly discovered fossils of Paranthropus robustus reveal a species much smaller than previously thought, yet surprisingly ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

A reconstruction of the famous Austrolopithecus afarensis Lucy. Which hominin made the bone tools at ... Ancient humans — also called hominins — such as the robust Australopithecus are known to have ...

Anthropology department head Prof. Ashley Pickard (center) and anthropology students Olivia Miller (left) and Grace Doquilo pose with three hominids: (L-R) A male Neanderthal, Australopithecus ...