This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The evolution of our diet mirrors the evolution of humans themselves. For instance, in the post-industrial era, human diets consisted mainly of whole foods, and after WWII, people became more prone to ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening for ...

I: INTRODUCTION: Early hominin diets: overview and historical perspective / Alan Walker -- Whose diet? : an introduction to the hominin fossil record / Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood -- II: THE ...

What we eat doesn’t just affect our bodies — it also shapes the evolution of the trillions of microbes living inside us. A ...

Increased meat in ancient hominin diets, beginning about 3 million years ago, meant that guts (large and small intestines) could become shorter because they could extract more expeditious calories in ...

Paul Saladino is stripped to the waist, biceps bulging as he works a butcher’s saw back and forth across a cow femur. When he finally severs the bone, a crowd of onlookers erupts in cheers. Flashing a ...

Once dismissed as just another diet trend, the Keto Diet has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last decade. In 2025, it’s no longer just about shedding pounds medical keto is now a ...

A University of Arizona study has uncovered a surprising relationship between an animal's body temperature and its likelihood of evolving into an herbivore. The study, published Monday in the journal ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...