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A 1.45-million-year-old shin bone discovered in northern Kenya has revealed a disturbing possibility about human evolution: our ancient relatives may have been eating one another hundreds of thousands ...

A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in people alive ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists' understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

In East Africa in the 1990s, Meave Leakey and the Hominid Gang discovered apelike creatures who walked upright four million ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack.

How early humans obtained meat, and what animal bones reveal about their behavior, will be the subject of a free public ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

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