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

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

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

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

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