When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.
An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...
A professor at Idaho State University, he said he didn’t “believe” the creature exists. He said he concluded it exists.
Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...
Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...
Scientists have unveiled a previously unknown tyrannosaur species that fundamentally changes our understanding of how the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. The newly identified dinosaur, named ...
Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...
When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...
A paradigm shift is coming as evidence emerges that we are more than our brains.
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 ...
A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.
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