Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

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

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

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

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