But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

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The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...