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

Debunked measures the true size of the giant ape Gigantopithecus. Immigration crackdown may spark 'black swan event,' CEO warns A Massive New Study Says This Is What Happens to People Who Drink Black ...

Gigantopithecus blacki stood nearly 3 meters tall and lived in Asia for 2 million years before mysteriously disappearing.

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

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

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

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

The demise of the giant ape <em>Gigantopithecus</em> has been the focus of recent study, where researchers have reached the conclusion that the presumably largest ...

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

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

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 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans ...