UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Analysis - Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

They detected clear chemical signatures in these remains, which indicated that lead exposure for these species dated back to ...

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

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...