It is arguable that the discovery of fire is one of the most important developments in the history of our species, if not the most important one. Our mastery over this elemental force has shaped so ...

Fire played a massive role in the development of human society as well as in the physiology of modern humans. For a long time, experts thought that the relationship between humans and fire was forged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

Red meat once supported human survival but modern eating is very different. High intake links to health risks and ...

Did the modern human species arise after our ancestors started cooking their food? In his new book, "Catching Fire", Richard Wrangham argues that is was the practice of cooking food that was central ...

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But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Scientists don’t agree on the role of meat in human evolution. The “meat ...

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