New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.

Early humans didn’t emerge from the genetic soup ... carved in it—suggesting that the carver had drawn it from life, thus supporting the creationist timeline. Archaeologists at various museums ...

The first five years of life are the fastest period of human growth and development as 90 percent of a person’s brain development occurs by the age of five. Investing in the early years helps to break ...

Human life history differs in many ways from our ... 1990), they predicted brain size at birth for australopiths, early Homo, and Homo erectus (180, 225, and 270 cc, respectively).

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...

It was not only the landscape that altered, but also the plant and animal life in the region - transforming the resources available to our early ancestors. Human Origins Program, Smithsonian The ...

The company is seeking global partners in the early-life nutrition and ingredients industries to develop downstream-processing approaches that will enable the incorporation of bio-authentic human ...

WASHINGTON — Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors 5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different ...