Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of Skulls of Ancient Humans at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and ...

Humans are exceptionally diverse, but we all have something in common: We're Homo sapiens, and we share a common ancestor. But the story of how we arose, spread around the globe and acted along the ...

Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Decades of history can be found in a single painting. Fern Cloud is a Native American artist who shares her peoples' stories by preserving the way her ancestors told them: through ...

Lately it feels like ancestors are talking to me all the time. I think this is good news. For most of my life I have been told what my ancestors have done so that I might live, so that I may ...

The push for museums, universities, and federal agencies to return Indigenous remains and sacred belongings is getting stronger as federal regulations have further tightened the rules around how these ...

Early human ancestors faced near-extinction between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, scientists say. An extreme climate event might have caused the evolutionary bottleneck. The population of our ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...