Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

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

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 and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the ...

TierZoo breaks down the evolutionary hacks that let one species conquer the leaderboard.

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...