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

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

Based on their findings, researchers postulate that Homo sapiens reacted better to lead exposure evolutionarily than ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

Noted public figures like David Attenborough have previously claimed that human evolution is over, but many researchers studying human evolution firmly disagree. We know that humans have altered our ...

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 ...

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

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

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

When we think of human evolution, our minds wander back to the millions of years it took natural selection to produce modern-day humans. Recent research suggests that, despite modern technology and ...

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