A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

Recent studies indicate that sugars in our diets have played a pivotal role in the evolutionary growth of the human brain ...

A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

Brain organoids, three-dimensional models of the brain, are a boon to neuroscience, making it possible to study the development, evolution and disease of the brain in a model that is based on human ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

Where Cat Bohannon first came as a child and now with a call for a new way of looking at human development. Cat Bohannon: We have a lot of stories about the evolution of mammals. We especially have a ...