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Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/did-lead-limit-brain-and-language-development-in-neanderthals-and-other-extinct-hominids
45•gmays•4h ago

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steveBK123•3h ago
Just like Huel!
andrewflnr•3h ago
What, did they have a lead contamination issue?
Legend2440•2h ago
A report recently came out that found lead in nearly every brand of protein powder, especially plant-based ones.

It seems to be from lead naturally occurring in the soil where crops are grown. There is a similar problem with arsenic in rice.

loeg•2h ago
There is nothing new under the sun. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675538

More recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582809

ch4s3•5m ago
Any time you collect a bunch of plants, dehydrate them, and pulverize them you’ll end up with a powdered concentration of whatever was in the plants. Since many plants can fix lead and because lead is everywhere you’ll get a little lead. It won’t be much, barely more than 1000x lower than the safe level, but some. Also cadmium probably.
zoklet-enjoyer•1h ago
I really wanted to like Huel. I like the idea of their meals, like chilli, but I didn't like it. Their Soylent type drink wasn't good either. Soylent 1.5 was the best.
MountDoom•9m ago
I get your joke, but the thesis here isn't that Neanderthals were exposed to more lead. Instead, the claim is that we might have evolved a mutation that protects our brain against lead to some extent.
8bitsrule•1h ago
Conceivable. And not just that far back. It's been thought that Beethoven's deafness was largely the result of the way wine was stored back in the 18th century.

And what did we learn from history? "The federal government banned the use of leaded pipe and solder in new plumbing systems in 1986, but many remaining pipe networks in older cities and homes predate the policy; the EPA estimates there are still 6 to 10 million lead service lines across the country." - https://greenyplace.com/when-did-they-stop-using-lead-pipes-...

JoelMcCracken•24m ago
Do most people just not know how to write an interrogative sentence anymore? It is wild to me how often these fragments of questions appear on the front page.

I use this form sometimes myself in a dialogue, as it fits that context. But as an isolated story title, I invariably end up reading the whole sentence several times, trying to parse it.

bawolff•14m ago
I think Hacker news removes "filler" words from headlines, which is why it is so weirdly phrased. The original headline is different.
floam•6m ago
HN doesn’t do it but it does have a character limit: go to the submission form and paste the original title (“Did Lead Limit Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Extinct Hominids?”) and you’ll see too long.

People lazily remove words until it fits instead of reworking the whole thing sometimes.

krapp•2m ago
HN does actually have automatic text filters to remove "extraneous" words from titles, even when they do fit. People have complained that the filters are too naive and sometimes destroy necessary context but for whatever reason the mods consider it necessary.

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