Human biology was forged across millions of years of dietary variety. No one food can even come close to honoring that. Picture a British sailor in the 1700s, six months into a transatlantic voyage.

Without food, the human body can survive much longer than many people realise, but the exact length of time varies from person to person. Factors such as age, overall health, body fat, and access to ...

Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our DNA to this day. A new analysis has found that a certain genetic variant inherited from ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

Could a human really survive on Mars using nothing but potatoes and waste? This experiment explores the science behind one of ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most extreme and challenging environments on Earth. The research, a collaboration ...

Archaeologists have identified the earliest sustained human occupation in Highland Southern Africa, and suggest it could not have existed without considerable collaboration at a time when we were ...

Elephants are widely adored by many people today — but a recent study suggests early humans were butchering them for survival nearly 2 million years ago. A group of international researchers found ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...