Western dislike of eating insects may be linked to ancient geography, genetics, and long-term diet patterns, not just culture ...

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Analysis of dental tartar reveals that Ancient Europeans ate insects less often than humans near the tropics, and probably ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

Insects may be full of protein, but they weren’t on the menu for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe or Central Asia. Even ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

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There are 13 species in the genus Urocitellus of ground squirrels, most of them living in North America, with one lineage ...

Fossilized poo harbours remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including some of the oldest DNA ever reconstructed.