New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat ...

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Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

Uncover the truth about early human diet. New research suggests our ancient relatives may not have been avid meat-eaters as previously believed.

Long before humans acquired an appetite for meat, one of our earliest hominin ancestors — Australopithecus — stuck to a vegetarian diet. The ancient hominin, living in eastern and southern Africa ...

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 ...

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

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

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 ...

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus.

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...