Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

The curious minds at What If reveal the truth about human and chimpanzee evolution, comparing genomes, behavior, and evolutionary divergence.

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

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 ...