Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Stories have long been swapped on awkward first kisses and princesses smooching frogs, but a new study suggests the earliest instance of two lips pressing together happened up to 21 million years ago ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.