A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof ... What made this possible was technology. The Yunxian skulls were severely crushed when they were first found, so early reconstructions were distorted and hard ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.

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

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “This tree had many branches, and there ...