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 ...

In experiments, researchers removed skin from stored bones to match cut marks found on bone fragments Scientists in Israel say they have found evidence that early humans deliberately stored bones ...

The scientists examined remains from an extinct species of fish similar to a carp Human beings used fire to cook food hundreds of ... to the route followed by early man on its migration out ...