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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

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 ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...