(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

A team of experts have found a tooth in Ethiopia which may rewrite our human family tree and forever alter our understanding of where we came from.

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

Australopithecus relied primarily on plant-based diets, not meat, challenging the long-held belief that meat consumption ...

We may only ever have 47 of the 207 bones that made up the skeleton of this 3.18-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis specimen known affectionately and widely as Lucy, but it’s been enough to ...

While we know much of the story of how humans evolved, the puzzle is still missing critical pieces. For example, fossil evidence for human evolution between 2 and 3 million years ago is patchy. It’s ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it would ...