Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

"Men's gains in height and weight are more than double those of women's, increasing sexual size dimorphism," the researchers ...

New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

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

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

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

Complete recombination map of the human-genome, a major step in genetics . Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have ...