The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains.

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived ... our ability to better understand diets and trophic level of all animals back into the scale of millions of years. The research provides ...

All human skulls bear markings that indicate the ... offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ancestors to-date. For more on this story, visit Natgeo.com. Today, the Harbin skull's ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max ...

The finding indicates that these early human ancestors consumed a predominantly ... and increased stature—all key events in human evolution, as noted by La Vanguardia. However, the findings ...

New research published in Science suggests that Australopithecus, a genus of early human ancestors, primarily consumed plants, with minimal evidence of meat consumption. This study analyzed nitrogen ...

"I think that's all starting with the Oldowan," Plummer ... an early hominin that is not a direct ancestor of humans. That suggests that the first tool making is not a human legacy, but an idea ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...