There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Red meat once supported human survival but modern eating is very different. High intake links to health risks and ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New laboratory work on ancient hunting tools points to decisions made far ...

Archaeology reveals early humans likely scavenged carcasses and transported meat, challenging the classic hunter narrative.

Human anatomy reflects millions of years of adaptation, and not all of it is efficient by modern standards. Some structures persist mainly because evolution moves slowly, not because they still serve ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, such as massive handaxes and stone balls, for important tasks, including ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...