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

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

Every desire, fear, and act of love is the cosmos thinking through our minds. The ARCH model exposes the brain's hidden ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

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 ...

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

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

The human brain grew from a survival machine into the most complex organ on Earth—fueling language, culture, and technology.