Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Do Christians eat meat on Ash Wednesday? The answer is yes and no, depending on their denomination. Many Catholics do not eat meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday or any Fridays during Lent, the rule is ...

During Lent, many Catholics abstain from eating red meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays. This practice is a spiritual act of sacrifice, penance, and self-control, not a dietary rule. Abstaining from ...

Why do humans have chins? Scientists have long puzzled over this question, since no other living primate species boasts this bony facial protrusion and chins serve no apparent purpose. Even our ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

A few years ago, being “skilled” often meant knowing the right answers. Today, AI can surface those answers in seconds. What increasingly matters is no longer what we know, but how we think, how we ...

Magnesium, fiber, protein powder, collagen — here’s what doctors actually recommend. Credit... Supported by By Alice Callahan Photographs by Ghazalle Badiozamani for The New York Times Marily Oppezzo, ...

While weight-loss medications can help people who struggle with bulimia, they can negatively affect those with restrictive eating tendencies Getty GLP-1 medications are a breakthrough in obesity ...