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 ...

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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