Our communities thrive because of the dedicated, passionate leaders who work with local organizations, aging adults and families. You could be one of them! UW’s human development and family sciences ...

The word “basic” gets treated unfairly. Colloquially, it has come to mean boring or mainstream, when once it signified something universal and fundamental. “Human Family,” Melora Kennedy‘s ...

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, scientists squinted at the flattened bones of “Yunxian 2,” guessing it ...

Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

She is not the oldest member of the extended human family, but she is by far the most complete of the early hominids; most of her skull and teeth as well as extremely rare bones of her pelvis, hands, ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Kory Caudill and Wordsmith collaborate in a Concert for the Human Family. Kory Caudill, a Nashville recording artist, pianist, composer and Wordsmith, a Baltimore songwriter, poet, in an inaugural ...

Knowing where we came from helps us to better understand where we are today. Our experiences within our family of origin can have an important influence on various aspects of our adult life, such as ...