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

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

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.

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

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

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

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

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 ...