Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo ... out what conditions were like during our evolution. Their models, like the new study, suggest ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which is a 150,000-year-old nearly complete human skull discovered ... played an important part in our evolutionary history.

For more than 15 years, the scientists had been digging in these mountains, searching for clues to some of the deepest mysteries of human evolution: When did Homo sapiens arrive here?

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

The research found that Lucy could run upright but at significantly slower speeds than modern humans, supporting the theory that human evolution focused on enhancing running performance, particularly ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human ... study offers a theory of the rise and fall of civilizations, concluding that humanity is on the brink of the next “giant leap” in evolution, should ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory ... of human impact upon nature. Read more: Wallacea is a living laboratory of Earth's evolution – and ...

Their philosophically informed discussion challenges the textbook version of evolutionary theory, known as the modern ... how rates of human evolution are driven by socially transmitted linguistic ...