In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. Many of the top stories tell us more about the diet and tool use of our early ancestors and relatives and the ...

Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.

If that were all we knew about human evolution, it’d be tempting to conclude that we evolved to eat a meat-based diet. But that’s only a piece of what anthropologists and archaeologists have ...

More research will need to be done to establish the roles of improved diet and lower risk of predation on human evolution and the development of menopause in our species.

Research at CCMB in Hyderabad reveals genetic links between diet quality and brain size evolution in primates.

The physical transformation of the human cranium over the past 160,000 years was probably driven by alterations in the face resulting from diet and lifestyle changes, not from the evolution of the ...

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods, study suggests by Robert Sanders, University of California - Berkeley Editors' notes ...