Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...
Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...
Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...
Gigantopithecus blacki stood nearly 3 meters tall and lived in Asia for 2 million years before mysteriously disappearing.
Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...
Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...
The demise of the giant ape <em>Gigantopithecus</em> has been the focus of recent study, where researchers have reached the conclusion that the presumably largest ...
UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...
A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...
Fun fact: The greatest ape in world history was a species called Gigantopithecus, probably twice the size of modern gorillas, that lived from 9 million years ago to 100,000 years ago in a lush ...