New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

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Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

Researchers say remains of at least 15 individuals in the Rising Star cave were deliberately placed and quickly covered by sediments, countering claims of accidental deposition.

One of the biggest controversies in human evolution just took another dramatic turn after researchers submitted their final, revised version of a study claiming that a small-brained human ancestor ...

Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in ...

The history of history changes on an almost historical level daily as scientists and paleontologists continue to find new evidence of our origins. Ella Al-Shamahi’s series “Human,” that can be seen as ...

Origins” Premieres Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 pm Around 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged in Africa – one of at ...