South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

This film emphasizes the importance of food for health and survival, tracing the evolution of food production from gathering to farming. It discusses the various food groups and their significance in ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.