Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...
Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...
Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from walking like apes to walking up right.
"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...
A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that humans have been exposed to lead for over two million years. The ...
Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...
Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...
In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...
An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...
(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...