Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

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A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

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A new study reveals how transposable elements (TEs) expanded gene regulation during brain evolution, shaping modern neural ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence supporting a mechanism in which transposable elements (TEs), once considered ...

The nightmare that jolts you awake at 3 a.m. isn’t a malfunction. It may be one of the oldest survival systems in the human ...

New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...

Scientists once assumed that evolution would eventually force every member of a species to behave in more or less the same ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...