Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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 ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Human Evolution 'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species Human Evolution 1.8 ...