Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday.The ...