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

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

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

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Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Neanderthals ruled Ice Age Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before vanishing 35,000 years ago. Did climate change, ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

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

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...