Based on their findings, researchers postulate that Homo sapiens reacted better to lead exposure evolutionarily than ...

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

Lead exposure from modern chemical pollution is a well-documented threat to neurodevelopment and general health, yet a ...

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

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 ...

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

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

What set the modern human brain apart from our now extinct relatives like Neanderthals? A new study by University of ...

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

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

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...