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

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

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

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...