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

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

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

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

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Fossils found in Nikiti, Greece, suggest that early hominins may have lived in Europe millions of years before they appeared ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often considered the first true human species, was the one to turn the tables on the ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...