Learn how lead exposure impacted ancient humans' health and brain activity up to 2 million years ago.

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

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

They detected clear chemical signatures in these remains, which indicated that lead exposure for these species dated back to ...

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

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

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...

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 ...

A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond with Gombe’s chimps and the scientific legacy of her skeletal collection.