A mere 300,000 years ago, the world's largest primate still roamed the forests of southern China, how would that massive ape ...

Researchers found lead bands in 73 percent of 51 fossilized teeth spanning two million years of hominin history.

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

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

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

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

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