For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still ...

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in South Africa has shed light on human evolution. Young Matthew Berger found a bone that led ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

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The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...