article_snippet: Tucking into meat for dinner helped early humans spread more quickly across the world and had a profound effect on human evolution, scientists say.
article_snippet: The high-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, meaning that human communities grew faster, according to researchers from Lund University in Sweden.
article_snippet: the latest research compared 67 species of mammals, including humans, apes, mice and killer whales, and found a clear correlation between eating meat and earlier weaning.
article_snippet: meat and earlier weaning found young of all species
article_snippet: stop suckling when meat and earlier weaning brains have developed to a particular stage, but that carnivores reached this point more quickly than herbivores or omnivores.
article_snippet: Eating meat enabled the breast-feeding periods and thereby the time between births to be shortened, according tot great accuracy researchers.