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

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 ...

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

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that humans have been exposed to lead for over two million years. The ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans. Using careful 3D scanning and digital ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...