Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Evolution has given humans countless unique features, but one body part stands out as an unsolved puzzle: the human chin.

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one ...

The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...