People around the time of this feast were intensively using the plants and animals that their descendants later domesticated. The combination of increased social interaction and changes in resources is what eventually led to the beginnings of agriculture.
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Scientists discover oldest evidence of stone tool use and meat-eating among human ancestors
Human ancestors were using stone tools and consuming meat from large mammals nearly million years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of ‘Lucy’
Researchers recovered only the second partial skeleton of science’s best known early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis.
Discovery of a primate more than 11 million years old
Characteristics derived from the dentition suggest that these animals are a clade, a monophyletic group, which, based on an African ancestor that migrated to Eurasia during the Early Miocene, was the first to radiate in this continent.
New human-like species unveiled
A. sediba resembles the first recognized australopithecine species A. africanus (which lived about 2.5 million years ago), in its ape-sized brain and ape-like body shape, muscular arms and powerful hands. However, they say A. sediba‘s face, teeth, pelvis and legs show more human characteristics, and this is the most human-like australopithecine yet discovered.
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