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

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

Every desire, fear, and act of love is the cosmos thinking through our minds. The ARCH model exposes the brain's hidden ...

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

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

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

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

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

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

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology.

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...