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, ...

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

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

Paleoanthropologists identified the early human based on molars that are several million years old.

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.