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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Our story began long before Homo sapiens—through apes, early primates, and ancient mammals that survived global extinctions and shifting continents. This documentary traces every key step across 65 ...

From Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, this video explores how humans evolved across millions of years of adaptation, ...

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “This tree had many branches, and there ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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