Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

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

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

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

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

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

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

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

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...