Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Humanity’s history of eating ‘processed’ food goes back much farther than you would think - Researchers say processing plant foods was key to human spread across globe ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh perspective on the dietary habits of early humans, challenging conventional ...

Learn how our human ancestors survived and thrived during climate shifts not by eating more meat, but by mastering plant ...