Ian Towle & Luca Fiorenza/The Conversation For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

While incoherent physical movement used to indicate AI’s use in the creation of an image, Sora 2 has improved significantly ...

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