For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about ...

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

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

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

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, water in the high Andes carried a mortal hidden danger. The water gushing from streams and ...

Red meat once supported human survival but modern eating is very different. High intake links to health risks and ...