Cows, pigs, chickens – these are staple foods in diets worldwide. Yet there’s something peculiar about human eating habits: we almost never eat other carnivores. Despite a wide variety of animal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Cultures vary in the extent to which they consume animal ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

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 ...