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 ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

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

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

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

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.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

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