In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...
Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...
The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...
Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...
An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...
Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...
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Ancient DNA of horse ancestors extracted from an open-air excavation site, the oldest to survive
A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...
Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...
It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...
New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...
Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...
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