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

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

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

Lead has been affecting humans for over 2 million years. Scientists believe that this metal could affect brain development, ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and ...

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

Evolution is the underlying assumption of biology; nothing in the field makes sense without it. It should trouble us that so ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits to others, multiplied by how closely related they are to you, outweigh the ...