A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...
Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research ...
Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...
The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...
How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...
A groundbreaking 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 ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...