Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

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

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

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

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

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

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 ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

Is God a singular, independent being? Or just an evolved projection of human's theory of what God should be? Slate's Jesse Bering finds himself asking these heady questions after an analysis of how ...