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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...