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.

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 ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...

Human childbirth is commonly viewed as uniquely difficult and dangerous. The reason: The combination of bipedalism and large ...

Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...

There is a growing idea in evolutionary biology that human ageing might not just be a modern biological process. Instead, it may be rooted in a very a.