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

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

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

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face ...

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

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

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

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

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