Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...

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

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost ...

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

A massive ape species once walked the Earth — and its remains are sparking fresh debates about what really lived alongside early humans. Top Navy official fired Jim Mitchum, ‘Thunder Road' Actor and ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...