Lead exposure is not good for us, but thanks to a single gene in our brains, it was apparently even worse for our Neanderthal ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

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

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and 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 ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

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

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

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

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

New fossil and DNA studies reveal that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early Homo sapiens occurred multiple times during the late Pleistocene. Hybrids like “Denny,” born of a ...

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