Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo ...

For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in South Africa has shed light on human evolution. Young Matthew Berger found a bone that led ...