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

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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

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

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...