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Findings from a new study challenge the traditional view that a heavy reliance on plant-based diets started only with the advent of agriculture.
Switching from foraging to farming would not have been an obvious choice for our ancestors. But they seem to have done it nonetheless.
These massacres entail killing on a relative scale seen today only in the most war-torn countries.
The change of lifestyle from 10,000 years ago had a dramatic impact on the male divefrsity revealed in DNA.
For hundreds of thousands of years humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies, eating wild plants and animals. Inequality in these groups is thought to have been very low, with evidence suggesting food…
The Neolithic Revolution introduced a whole range of new foods and proteins into the human digestive tract. But this phenomenal change created the perfect conditions for the rise of coeliac disease. While…
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