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

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

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

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

A study of prehistoric stone tools has suggested that a group of early humans ate a surprisingly diverse range of plant foods ...

A recent study has discovered an interesting link between the tool selection behavior of chimpanzees and early human ...

"It allowed (the pre-human ancestors) to access a whole array of foods that they would never have had access to before." ...