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 ...

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

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

The origins of variation in the human genome revealed that advances in cognitive abilities likely led to our vulnerability to ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

A new study has examined micronutrient-driven adaptation worldwide and across a broad range of micronutrients. We spoke with ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Padma Bhushan awardee Prof. P. Balaram explores the link between Mendelian genetics, Darwinian evolution, and chemistry at ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...