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

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

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

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

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

Innovation often emerges where creativity intersects with technology, driving humanity toward new possibilities. Praveen ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.