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 glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

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 ...

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

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

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

Proteins extracted from six teeth of early humans residing in what is now China around 400,000 years ago provide new insights into how ancient genetic material may have made its way into modern humans ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the emerging belief that humans ...

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