The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

Learn how our human ancestors survived and thrived during climate shifts not by eating more meat, but by mastering plant processing. The common belief about our ancient human ancestors is that they ...

New archaeological research is turning a long-accepted idea about human evolution on its head—challenging the belief that meat was the cornerstone of early human diets and that plant foods only rose ...