Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Jul 23, 2019, 07:03pm EDT Jul 23, 2019, 07:03pm EDT This article is more ...

The findings come from the Ajvide cemetery on the island of Gotland, one of the largest and best-preserved burial grounds ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

The oft-used description of early humans as "hunter-gatherers" should be changed to "gatherer-hunters," at least in the Andes of South America, according to groundbreaking research led by a University ...

A few years ago I published a chapter entitled “The Play Theory of Hunter-Gatherer Egalitarianism” in an academic book concerned with human evolution (Gray, 2014). To make the ideas more available to ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...

Using the oldest dog genes studied so far, scientists are finding more evidence that our furry friends have been our ...