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A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground ...

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New research on chimpanzees living in the open woodlands of Tanzania suggests that the story of how humans learned to walk on ...

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are.