It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

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.

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

Human birth has a reputation for danger. The usual explanation is simple enough: walking upright narrowed the pelvis, while ...

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

Why does a sneeze take over your whole face? And why can light trigger it in some people? The answers lie in brain evolution ...

Over the past decade, cities around the world have increasingly turned to nature-based infrastructure to become more ...

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 ...

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

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

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