Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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

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

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

The Trump administration says most of the layoffs announced last week aren't covered by a court-ordered pause that only ...

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

By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...