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

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series debuting Wednesday on PBS.

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Director of the Duckworth Collection, University of Cambridge It’s one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.