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

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

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

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

Lead exposure from modern chemical pollution is a well-documented threat to neurodevelopment and general health, yet a ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...