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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...
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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...
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Was Meat On The Menu For Early Human Ancestors? Study Says...
The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such ...
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Our Ancestors Were Vegetarian, Archaeologists Find
But evidence of when prehistoric people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs but had smaller brains than ...
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Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian
Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an ...
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Australopithecus Fossil
New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat or plant-based diet. A new study published in the American Journal of ...
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Early Human Ancestors Relied on Plants, Not Meat
New research published in Science suggests that Australopithecus, a genus of early human ancestors, primarily consumed plants, with minimal evidence of meat consumption. This study analyzed nitrogen ...
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Early ancestor diet revealed: Australopithecus relied on plants, not meat
New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...
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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...
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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans’ development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn’t start with Australopithecus, according to a new study Margherita ...
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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...