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

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance.

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

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

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...