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

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

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

A Southern Cross University geochemist is first author of a groundbreaking international study changing the view that ...

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

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and ...

Our brains evolved for complex thought and language - but the same genes that made us smarter may have increased mental illness risk.

Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...