New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans ... study sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more ... from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in ...

Study shows early humans had plant-based diets Meat wasn’t a significant part of Australopithecus diet Research helps understand human dietary evolution ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of human evolution. Tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and ...

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 ...

Northumbria University’s Dr Vasile Ersek and an international team have uncovered evidence of early hominins in Europe dating ...