(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Interestingly, carnivorous fish like tuna, salmon, and swordfish don’t fall under this “humans don’t eat carnivores” rule.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Cultures vary in the extent to which they consume animal ...

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 ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years. When ...

Turns out, early humans preferred smoked meat to cooked meat. Or they might have, according to a new theory from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Published in a paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, the ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Culturesat Tel Aviv University ...