Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

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 ...

A notable feature of the archaeological sites of early humans, members of the genus Homo known as hominins, is that they are often found in and near mountain regions. Using an extensive dataset of ...

Such biome diversity was a draw for early humans, as it provided increased food resources and resilience to climate change, an idea known as the Diversity Selection Hypothesis. "When we analyzed ...