Lead exposure is not good for us, but thanks to a single gene in our brains, it was apparently even worse for our Neanderthal ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

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 ...

From being branded as primitive brutes to misunderstood geniuses, Neanderthals have long been misrepresented. Fossil and ...

Environmental exposure to lead, a phenomenon once believed to be relatively recent in human history, actually dates back more ...

Neanderthals and Denisovans both carried a slightly altered version of the GLI3 gene, in which an amino acid at one end of ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

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

A Southern Cross University geochemist is first author of a groundbreaking international study changing the view that ...

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

A groundbreaking study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals had nearly identical brain ...