The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2023 was an opportunity to re-examine the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her colleagues in the United Nations as ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963 ...

Human Rights Day in South Africa, observed annually on 21 March, is a significant national holiday rooted in the country’s history of struggle against apartheid. It serves as a reminder of the ...

A firearm is held by a Peruvian soldier. Human rights abuses in Peru are being digitized by UC Davis history researchers. (Getty Images) Research team led by Charles Walker, professor of history at UC ...