A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...
When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...
Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...
Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...
Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...
A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face ...
Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...
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.
Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...