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

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

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.

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

The story of our ancient ancestors began in Africa millions of years ago. But there are considerable gaps between the first and current chapters of that tale, and some anthropologists are looking to ...