Fossil antelope teeth reveal stable, mixed habitats in the Cradle.Sudden woodland-to-grassland shift 1.7M yrs ago is ...

The tireless search to decipher humanity’s origins has taken a new turn following an exhaustive investigation into one of the most complete and ancient skeletons ever discovered: Ardipithecus ramidus, ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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 ...

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

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

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

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

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 ...