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

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.

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 ...

The additional consumption of carrion is often neglected when considering food chains and networks. "Early humans, more than 30,000 years ago, did not live in isolation from the animal world ...