A new study offers a fascinating insight into the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers and challenges the assumption that early humans were primarily carnivores. It analysed some 780,000 ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest ...

It's widely accepted that our ancestors were cooking 300,000 years ago, but evidence found at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa suggests we may have started using fire to heat our food much earlier ...

Study authors say the teeth, dated around 780,000 years old, push back the date humans are known to have engaged in cooking by more than 600,000 years. Katherine Irving is an intern at The Scientist.