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

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Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

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

A Southern Cross University geochemist is first author of a groundbreaking international study changing the view that ...

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An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans. Using careful 3D scanning and digital ...

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

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.