Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Lead exposure from modern chemical pollution is a well-documented threat to neurodevelopment and general health, yet a ...

A groundbreaking study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals had nearly identical brain ...

Research reveals that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered unexpected levels of lead exposure, shaping how our ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

A former Florida state biologist is suing the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for wrongful termination. The employee was fired after reposting a social media message about the ...

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 ...

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

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