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

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

For decades, the narrative of early humans evolution has been closely tied to the rise of meat consumption, thought to have ...

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

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...