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

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

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

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...