Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...
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.
Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.
Our early human ancestors had a much greater adaptability to survive in extreme environments than previously thought ...
Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...
New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.
A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of ...
The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...
New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...
A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...
A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton ...
The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...