A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should survive.

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.