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

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason Hodgson.

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

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 ...

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?

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

All humans digest mother’s milk as infants ... We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution, many humans are getting more calories than they burn ...

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