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

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

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

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Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...

It's the final day to submit your nominees for this year's Fiercest Women in Life Sciences! The nomination form will close at 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 26. Every year, we celebrate women making a ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison intends to be the first US site to install the Alphabeam ™ BNCT system and execute the first clinical trials to focus on head and neck and brain cancers IRVINE, Calif.- ...

Live Science picked Al-Khalili's brain about the show, how the human brain ... relates to brain evolution? JAK: What I found very fascinating was the Permian mass extinction, sometimes called the ...