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

An international study claims lead was a problem for our ancestors and Homo sapiens might have had a genetic edge over other human species. The research analysed fossilised teeth from different ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cluster of Pleistocene archaeological and palaeontological sites of Melka Kunture and Balchit lies along the upper course of the Awash River, on the Ethiopian Highlands, at an altitude of about ...

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

A growing number of scientists maintain that our current geological epoch should be classified as the Anthropocene, which speaks bluntly to humanity’s impact on the global environment. Yeo chose not ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...