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

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof ... What made this possible was technology. The Yunxian skulls were severely crushed when they were first found, so early reconstructions were distorted and hard ...

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

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

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...