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

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

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

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

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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