A handful of ancient teeth from China are giving scientists an unusual look at one of the hardest chapters in human evolution ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

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

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

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

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