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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 ...

A recent study suggests that the human brain emerges from two separate organs, a discovery that may impact future treatments ...

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say a decrease in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) molecules in joints separated human ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it. By Adam Nossiter Ralph Holloway, an ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

For years, Professor Robin Dunbar questioned the findings of a study published nearly three decades earlier on the “brain lag” hypothesis, the theory that as body size grows, the brain develops more ...