Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in Science Advances Alysson Muotri, a geneticist at the University of California, ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

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 fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, ...

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...