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.

A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs ...

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

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in ...