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

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 ...

While many studies have looked at possible evolutionary links between men's strength and sexual behavior, a Washington State ...

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

Breaking new ground in our understanding of early human diet and evolution, scientists have discovered that our ancient ...

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

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

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

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

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

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 ...

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 ...