Hominins suffered lead poisoning starting at least 2 million years ago

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Hominins Suffered Lead Poisoning Starting At Least 2 Million Years Ago

By Ars Technica

Our hominid ancestors faced a Pleistocene world full of dangers—and apparently one of those dangers was lead poisoning. Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that start ...Read more

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