The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

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Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

For most mammals, fur is essential for survival. Humans lost it anyway and didn’t just survive, they adapted. Fossil and ...

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Fundamentalists don't necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...