Origin of Foods a Mystery to Many
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Many people have so little knowledge of farming they don't realise which foods are domestically grown.   A survey commissioned by the charity Leaf (Linking Environment and Farming) claims that more than one in four (29%) of the 1,700 adults questioned had never set foot on a working farm.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from
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Lice genes have been a head-scratcher for experts in human origins who now suspect that we humans picked up some parasites from our more primitive ancestors.
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A discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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It was once hailed as Britain&#39;s national dish, but chicken tikka masala -- the spicy &quot;Indian&quot; curry popular throughout the United Kingdom -- has remained largely a mystery on the subcontinent.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are reporting a possible answer to a longstanding question in research on the origins of life on Earth--how did the first amino acids form the first peptides?
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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The findings about Peru are evidence that some farming developed in parts of the Americas nearly as early as in the Middle East, considered the birthplace of agriculture.
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It is becoming clear that the human genome responds to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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A study of 7,000-year-old pig remains gives new insight into the migration of Middle Eastern people into Europe.
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Using computer programs,scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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Wine, the elixir of the gods, may be as old as human history, and a team of archaeologists who combine their science with chemistry has found evidence that Chinese were already enjoying sips of fermented rice, honey and fruit in the late Stone Age, more