This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Scientists have long suspected that the trillions of microbes in our intestines do more than digest lunch, but new work goes ...

In a review published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers in the United States of America described the potential role and benefits of externally fermented foods in triggering the ...

I: INTRODUCTION: Early hominin diets: overview and historical perspective / Alan Walker -- Whose diet? : an introduction to the hominin fossil record / Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood -- II: THE ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human brain is an ...

A timeless question has always fascinated scientists who study the past. Which comes first, the new behavior or the physical tool that perfects it? Do you change how you live and then evolve the body ...

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...