Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for millennia on ...

It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...