Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...