Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the earliest humans survived mainly by hunting animals or scavenging carcasses left behind by predators. .

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

Stone tools like this one, excavated at the Anyama site, reveal that humans were present at the rainforested site roughly 150,000 years ago. Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Stone tools like this one, ...