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

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

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

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

Dated to about 1.5 million years ago, the bones display a long robust thumb, short fingers and a mobile little finger, hinting at tool use and precision grips beyond the genus Homo.

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

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Green, D., Gordon, A., and Richmond, Brian G. 2007. "Limb-size proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus." Journal of Human Evolution ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...