We are what we eat. But we are also a way of obtaining food. For millions of years, our ancestors searched for fruits, caught fish, hunted birds and animals, and sometimes tried not to become someone’s dinner. Our entire life revolves around food. Even the sense of wonder, modes of communication, rituals - all of this either stems from the desire to eat or is accompanied by a feast. Thanks to the analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes from soil and fossil teeth, we know which animals lived in which habitats - overgrown with trees or grass, dry or wet .How the ancestors fought for dinner—50 true stories will tell you about it. Modern science can tell us a lot about life in the past. And therefore, each tale is accompanied by an investigation, a story about how scientists learn about the long past. The main thing that we learn when examining this amazing kaleidoscope is that ancient people were different. Some of them were unlucky, but those who were better—stronger, smarter, kinder—survived, multiplied and became our ancestors. We are the descendants of the best ancestors, and this is a reason to try to be the best ancestors for our descendants. The most intriguing composition is a chain of footprints of a giant sloth walking on two legs, followed by a man. Some of the human prints are inside the sloth's tracks: the man walked step by step with the beast, adapting to its pace.