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

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

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

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

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

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

Researchers believe a skull unearthed in 1990 suggests the emergence of the human species occurred 400,000 years earlier than previously believed The fossil was discovered in China’s Hubei Province ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

The discovery of this petite primate in 2004 sent palaeontologists into a bit of a spin, as the species breaks one of the golden rules of human evolution – namely, that our brains got bigger over time ...