Lead exposure is not good for us, but thanks to a single gene in our brains, it was apparently even worse for our Neanderthal ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

A pair of bones long touted as Japan’s oldest human remains have been reidentified—not as people, but as a prehistoric brown ...

Environmental exposure to lead, a phenomenon once believed to be relatively recent in human history, actually dates back more ...

In a remarkable discovery along the Kalambo River in Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure that challenges ...

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

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

Research reveals that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered unexpected levels of lead exposure, shaping how our ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

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