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

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

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

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

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

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

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

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

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

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

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

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