Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Uncover the truth about early human diet. New research suggests our ancient relatives may not have been avid meat-eaters as ...

Australopithecus, our distant ancestors, primarily fed on plants. A recent study, published in Science, reveals that contrary ...

But scientists have struggled to determine when meat consumption began and who did it. New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published ...

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Counter to today's depictions of cave-dwellers feasting on raw meat, early relatives of present-day humans ate little or no ...

Study published in Science identifies Australopithecus as a plant eater, narrowing the scope on when regular animal ...

A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

Jan 16 (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 ...