Peter Ungar, professor of anthropology in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has edited a book, The Evolution of Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas who has written extensively on the role of diet in human evolution, and wasn’t involved with this new research. “The results underscore the fact ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- New evidence suggests that human ancestors may have shifted to a predominantly grass-based diet around 3.8 million years ago -- 400,000 years earlier that previously thought.

likely due to changes in diet over the last 2 million years. The size of human teeth today is not necessarily better or worse, but simply more suited to the current environment. "Evolution cares ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening ...

"In a 2011 paper, which dealt with the demise of Homo erectus in the Levant, we had already tapped into the notion that diet played a major role in human evolution," said Prof. Barkai. "We argued ...

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening ...

“It’s a fairly narrow prescription for what you should be allowed to eat, implying that this is somehow the perfect evolutionarily designed diet for humans. I think that’s bunk. “If the human ...