Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania have developed a deep and mutually beneficial relationship with the Greater Honeyguide bird, which, as its name indicates, leads people to sources of wild ...

A fire crackles just after dawn in north Tanzania's bushlands. The sun is starting to rise over the Yaeda Valley and the start of a new day means one thing for the Hadza tribe. It's time to begin ...

In Western Tanzania tribes of wandering foragers called Hadza eat a diet of roots, berries, and game. According to a new study, their guts are home to a microbial community unlike anything that's been ...

Unlike most Western guys and gals looking for love, Africa’s Hadza foragers pair up without regard to each other’s size and strength, a new study finds. And that stature-may-care approach underscores ...

Bill Benenson's documentary profiles East Africa's last remaining true hunter-gatherers By THR Staff The Hadza: Last of the First Still - H 2014 The film which seems destined for prominent exposure on ...

HAMBURG — For more than two decades, Herman Pontzer, professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at Duke University, has studied human metabolism and energy expenditure, especially in ...

Greenland, Bolivia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Crete. After traveling to five different countries in search of the origins of the human diet, Matthieu Paley comes to the last stop in his journey, Tanzania. I ...

The Hadza, people who inhabit the Lake Eyasi region of northern Tanzania, trace their lineage to the earliest known ancestors of mankind. The documentary “The Hadza: Last of the First” explores their ...

The Hadza are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world. It's thought they've lived on the same land in northern Tanzania, eating berries, tubers and 30 different mammals for ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. "I'm hungry," says Onwas, squatting by his fire, blinking placidly through the smoke. The men beside him murmur in assent ...