Red meat is evolution's double-edged sword, argue researchers

MedicalXpress | мая 13, 2026

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component of human evolution, has become a significant threat to human health and planetary sustainability. Researchers synthesize roughly three million years of hominin dietary history alongside modern epidemiological and molecular data to posit that the food source that likely shaped our species is now contributing to its undoing.