Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...
Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...
Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...
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 ...
Food has shaped human history in more ways than most people realize. Over thousands of years, they may also have changed the ...
No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...
For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...
Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...