In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

A further source of evidence for gene–culture co-evolution comes from anthropological ... include those related to recent changes in human diet and human-induced disease. The well-researched ...

Scientists have long suspected the keto diet might be able to calm an overactive immune system and help some people with diseases like multiple sclerosis. Now, they have reason to believe it could ...

Summary: New research highlights how a palm oil-rich diet may worsen multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms by generating a toxic compound in neurons. Researchers found that enzymes CerS5 and CerS6 convert ...

Kissing is rare in non-human animals, but is a behavior seen in some of our closest relatives – like the chimpanzee “The evolution of kissing is best understood through the biology and ...

The mission of human nutrition, foods, and exercise is to discover, translate, and disseminate health-related advances in nutrition, food, and exercise sciences. The undergraduate options include ...

And their periods actually restarted on the diet," said Madison Kackley, lead author of the study and a research scientist and lecturer in human sciences at The Ohio State University. "Our ...

Researchers have uncovered how social interactions influence brain development in common marmosets, drawing parallels with human evolution. The study reveals that brain regions involved in social ...

What makes the study by Jensen et al. (7) particularly convincing is that they were able to rule out some alternative possible explanations for the observed size decline, such as changes in fishing ...