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

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

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

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

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

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

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

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 ...