I: INTRODUCTION: Early hominin diets: overview and historical perspective / Alan Walker -- Whose diet? : an introduction to the hominin fossil record / Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood -- II: THE ...

Click here to launch gallery. Meat has played a starring role in the evolution of the human diet. Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil of a human ancestor in Africa, popularized the ...

The evolution of our diet mirrors the evolution of humans themselves. For instance, in the post-industrial era, human diets consisted mainly of whole foods, and after WWII, people became more prone to ...

Perspectives on the evolution of human diet / Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford -- Evolution, diet, and health / S. Boyd Eaton, Stanley B. Eaton III, and Loren Cordain -- Post-Pleistocene human ...

A timeless question has always fascinated scientists who study the past. Which comes first, the new behavior or the physical tool that perfects it? Do you change how you live and then evolve the body ...

Human biology was forged across millions of years of dietary variety. No one food can even come close to honoring that.

Briana Pobiner leads the National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts and manages the Human Origins Program's public programs. Her research centers on ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening for ...