Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

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

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

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

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...