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Meat wasn't on the menu for our ancient hominin ancestors
New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.
The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
3 million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian: Here’s the evidence, why it matters
New research suggests that our ancestors, such as Australopithecus, consumed little to no meat, relying instead on a ...