Olympic runners compete during the 10,000 meters race in Tokyo. In ancient times, running was likely used to push animals to exhaustion during hunting. Abbie Parr/Getty Images The coming Olympics
Davide Bonadonna © Bournemouth University This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the
A gorilla sleeps in a forest in Rwanda. Daryl & Sharna Balfour / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars.
Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped make better-fed, smarter hominins. YASU On the
A vendor displays chili peppers at a local market in India. Biju Boro / AFP via Getty Images As someone who grew up in the Philippines, I have always loved
Two Hadza men in Tanzania carry bows and their catch. Andreas Lederer via Wikimedia under CC By-SA 2.0 What did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago?