Our great ape cousins eat the same medicinal herbs we do When you’re not feeling well, maybe you reach for some medicine or some comfort food that might even have medicinal properties (chicken soup, ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...