Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

Paige Madison is a science writer specializing in human origins. She holds a PhD in the history of science, and her work has ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Orrorin tugenensis, discovered in Kenya’s Tugen Hills, walked upright 6 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens evolved.

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

Smooching might be a familiar behavior, but it's more mysterious than you would probably imagine. While kissing might feel ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

Scientists found that kissing likely originated millions of years ago in great apes and was shared by early human relatives, including Neanderthals.