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

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

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 ...

Ms. Al-Shamahi is as prominent a visual component of “Human” as are the breathtaking landscapes to which us humans ventured, ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor.The finding, announced ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Researchers working in Ethiopia’s Afar region have discovered a new species of human ancestor which cohabited with Homo sapiens.

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.