The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

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

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

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Richard Wrangham is the retired Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda in ...

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

They detected clear chemical signatures in these remains, which indicated that lead exposure for these species dated back to ...

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

Some species of hominids, a family of primates dating back to the early Miocene, who lived in East Africa about ...

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language development. Modern humans uniquely carry a protective NOVA1 gene variant ...