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

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

Their finding upends conventional wisdom on the subject, which held that for early human ancestors, the risks of eating ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, ...

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

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 ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

The recent analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone in Ethiopia showed that the ancient species Ardipithecus ramidus may ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

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