You might believe lions, wolves, or grizzly bears sit comfortably atop the food chain. Yet a growing body of research tells a ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors. For a good 2 million years, Homo sapiens and their ancestors ditched the salad and ...

This morning my email inbox was brimming over with news about an essay published in Science magazine by researchers from the University of Victoria (Canada) and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation ...

Editor: This letter is in regard to the July 5 letter “Rattlesnake roundups endanger species and environment.” It’s true that snakes are highly efficient predators. True, they do play a major role in ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared.

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was ...