Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

Now researchers are learning that they have also evolved another remarkable genetic adaptation since their ancestors first ...

Illustration by Ella Maru, Tel Aviv University, CC BY License Cooking makes food easier to digest, allowing for the extraction of more nutrients ... in genetics and human evolution in the past ...

Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution. By Kate Golembiewski ... makes the energy and nutrients in food accessible to the digestive system.

“The story of human evolution has appeared to be the story ... March 9, 2016 Cooking food makes it easier for the body to digest and get nutrients, explained David Braun, an archaeologist ...

The study posits that human teeth ... also important for making the energy and nutrients within it accessible to your digestive system. As such, the evolution of chewing has helped streamline ...

For a long time, scientists felt confident in their understanding of the timeline of human evolution. But a recent discovery ...

“The novel finding opens a new field in human evolution because it evokes many ... start,” study co-author and Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health theoretical population geneticist ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result?

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Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...