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

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

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

The human body is eerily similar to a complex machine, with countless delicate parts. These parts range from the tiniest of ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...