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

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

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

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published ...

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

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 ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

Cambrian fossils from the Kuanchuanpu Formation reveal details of early nervous system evolution in ecdysozoans ...

Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding ... 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence showing a hominin presence in Europe, half-a-million years earlier than previously thought ...

Fossils once thought to represent the earliest known human remains from the country turn out to be from another animal.