The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

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 ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

The researchers' wider analysis, based on the reconstruction and more than 100 other skull fossils, has sketched a radically ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

New research has uncovered the ancient origins of an urban mosquito species, Culex pipiens form molestus, also known as the ...

Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi has a wide range of exhibits which will take visitors on an immersive journey through 13.8 ...

The insect, which became known as the London Underground mosquito, is known by scientists as Culex pipiens form molestus. Evolutionary biologists have long believed that it evolved from the ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...