Recent scientific findings suggest that Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than their Homo sapiens ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

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

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

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 ...

Researchers studied ancient tooth fossils and found that a gene mutation in modern humans (right) better protected them against lead and gave them an advantage over Neanderthals (left). Kyle Dykes / ...

Usually, an elected official charges before the evidence is in, and the bureaucrat provides an open-ended background about the food safety problem. But with the lead poisoning of applesauce pouches ...