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

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

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

The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual gets incorporated into tissue, ...

Ever since the discovery of Australopithecus africanus and the recovery of associated fauna indicative of open habitats, it has been posited that the origin of bipedality in our lineage had its ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...

A significant revelation about the dietary habits of early human ancestors suggests a strong reliance on plant-based foods rather than meat consumption. Evidence from fossilised t ...

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 ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa, that were sampled in new research exploring the diet of this important ancient human ancestor. The ...