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 ...

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 ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of our species. Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction. It got bigger. That long rise is still ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

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.

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Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small ...