Cooking is important — in fact, some researchers believe it's what allowed our human ancestors ... people were cooking food at least 50,000 years ago and as early as 2 million years ago.

Eating has always been one of humankind's defining activities. Food is not just sustenance; it has shaped our evolution, ...

Tooth morphology and dental microwear studies suggest that the diet of some hominins may have included hard food ... Human Evolution 15, 639-659 (1986). Blumenschine, R. J. Characteristics of an ...

However, a study published today (November 14) in Nature Ecology & Evolution argues that humans were cooking fish at least as far back as 780,000 years ago. The authors’ discovery of apparently cooked ...