(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

A new study of early human ancestors who lived millions of years ago suggests that they were largely vegetarian, despite the fact that stone tools and cut animal bones have been found from that same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geochemist Tina Lüdecke stands next to "Little Foot", a remarkably well-preserved Australopithecus skeleton that was discovered in ...

When the Paleolithic Period dawned, at least one group from which humanity may have descended had a diet that would infuriate most people who think they’re “eating Paleo”. In fact, a group of ...

For decades, the narrative of early humans evolution has been closely tied to the rise of meat consumption, thought to have fueled brain development and advanced tool use. However, groundbreaking ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no meat, according to new research published in the scientific journal Science.

A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton University has found evidence that early hominins living in South Africa ate a ...