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

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

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct species. Among other contrasts, Neanderthal ...

The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more we discover how smart they really were. It wasn't very long ago that the public and scientific perception of Homo neanderthalensis was unflattering, to ...

A fossilized skeleton of a five-year-old child discovered in a prehistoric cave about 90 years ago in the then British-ruled Palestine, has pushed back the timeline for human-Neanderthal interbreeding ...

Scientists in Spain found a 43,000-year-old fingerprint. It is on a stone with a red dot. The dot looks like a nose. This suggests Neanderthals made art. The fingerprint was found in San Lazaro.

A Harvard geneticist discussed cloning Neanderthals, but experts find hang-ups. Jan. 22, 2013— -- A Harvard geneticist has raised eyebrows by declaring that scientists could make a Neanderthal ...