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 ...

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 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 ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

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.