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

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

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

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.

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

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

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

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