Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a new ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Human bones were a sort of social currency during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in central Europe. The skeletal remains of the deceased were often ripped apart, severed, and dug out of graves ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills of British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023. Evacuation ...

Source: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 For most of our history as a species, we lived as tribal hunter-gatherers. Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 ...