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

A Southern Cross University geochemist is first author of a groundbreaking international study changing the view that ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

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

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

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

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously thought. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was discovered in Hubei Province ...

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