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

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

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 ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

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 ...

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

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

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

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...