Early hominids have been eating meat long before they were even considered modern humans. The meat was likely raw because they didn’t yet have fire to cook it, and it may have been scavenged. Nonetheless, at some point, millions of years ago, they began to crave animals.
“At around 2.6 million years ago, we see an interest in meat from early hominids and the invention of flake stone tools to cut that meat,” says Henry Bunn, a professor of African paleoanthropology at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
