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 ...

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

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

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

The land bridge, now submerged in the Aegean Sea, may have been a crucial migration route for both Homo sapiens and ...

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

A mitochondrial DNA study points to at least two waves of migration linking the Americas, China, and Japan- one during the ...

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