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 ...

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 ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause. Though autism can cause certain developmental ...

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our ...

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 ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...