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

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an analysis of ...

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

New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.

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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 Europe ...

Fossils once thought to represent the earliest known human remains from the country turn out to be from another animal.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

Cambrian fossils from the Kuanchuanpu Formation reveal details of early nervous system evolution in ecdysozoans ...