A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

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A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

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

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists. The Earth Species Project hopes to ...

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

Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

All of us, all eight billion people on this planet, belong to a single species. We Homo sapiens are the last hominins on Earth.Not long ago, it was widely believed that modern humans followed a ...