The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Anxiety presents itself as helpful but it's actually an unreliable narrator. We must learn to not automatically assume that ...

K’ómoks First Nation and the Marmot Recovery Foundation have been studying archeological remains that ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

Predators accumulate more nitrogen-14 than ... the idea that eating meat was essential for human brain development. Neanderthals, who emerged 250,000 years ago, were top-level carnivores.

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

In food webs, nitrogen isotopes become enriched as you move up the chain, meaning predators have higher ... not regularly hunting large mammals like Neanderthals did millions of years later.