A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

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 ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

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

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

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.