The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

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

A group of Stanford researchers are harnessing the sound of mothers' voices for infants born weeks or months prematurely, ...

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

All children and families served by Head Start set to lose under new rule adopted by the Trump Administration.

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...