A genomic study led by researchers at Stanford University, California, has performed ultra-deep metagenomic sequencing on 351 fecal samples from the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. In their paper, ...

HAMBURG — For more than two decades, Herman Pontzer, professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at Duke University, has studied human metabolism and energy expenditure, especially in ...

Deep in Tanzania, the Hadza people still live as one of the last true hunter-gatherer societies on Earth. Their way of life hasn’t changed for thousands of years, relying entirely on skill, knowledge, ...

When Herman Pontzer began studying the metabolisms of the Hadza, a tribe of modern hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, for a 2012 study, he assumed they’d be incinerating calories like a furnace. They were ...