To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

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 ...

Our early human ancestors had a much greater adaptability to survive in extreme environments than previously thought ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no ...