Science writer Elena Bridgers, has studied the evolution of motherhood to answer the pressing question, “Why is modern ...

An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking – considered to be a relatively recent societal curse – are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist ...

Around this time, hunter–gatherer societies in the Levant were transitioning to a farmer lifestyle. This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been ...

The switch from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture gave us more food, but we have remained hunter-gatherers of external energy, collecting and burning wood, whales, or whatever we could get.

The combination of blue eyes and dark skin, which is sometimes seen in people with mixed European and African ancestry, may once have been common among ancient European hunter-gatherers ...