Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, ...

We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of excessive meat, with a few berries mixed in here and there. It's mostly true that early humans ate a diet of what they could safely get ...

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 ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

The common belief about our ancient human ancestors is that they were primarily carnivores, hunting animals for the main source of food. This "Paleolithic meat-eater" trope is widely believed by both ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...