Did humans evolve to eat raw, aged, or cooked meat? I tried to test digestion
Read now →That's how I ended up feeding raw meat to undergrads
That's how I ended up feeding raw meat to undergrads
Brian Switek's book breathes new life into our understanding of old bones
An evolutionary anthropologist tackles the mystery of the butt
Gorillas' eating habits don't match their tooth specializations, raising questions about determining early human diets from fossil records
The toxic environment offers clues to ancient mummies and human evolution
Walk like a person, talk like a turkey
The anatomy of our pelvis is a result of an evolutionary trade-off, but perhaps it's not the one we thought
The original paleo diet lives on in humans today
Understanding walrus-human interactions in the past might shed some light on the "walrus scene"
Nathan Lents' new book details the accidental, incidental nature of human quirks
'The Tales Teeth Tell' traces the evolution of our teeth into "oral Swiss army knives"
The aye-aye has been hiding a secret all this time: a sixth pseudodigit
Iodine promotes brain development, but until now we did not know where our hominin ancestors may have gotten this mineral
Previously, only fragments of bone and mitochondrial DNA linked Denisovans to Homo sapiens
A newly discovered species of ancient ape could shed light on the origins of human bipedalism
These true stories show that archaeology has plenty of terrifying discoveries to share