New studies spearheaded by the University of Utah show that human ancestors expanded their menu 3.5 million years ago. Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs. Adding tropical grasses and sedges to an ape-like diet and setting the stage for our modern diet of grains, grasses and meat and dairy from grazing animals. In four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from scores of human ancestors and baboons in Africa from ...Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Human Ancestor to Consume Substantial Amounts of Grassy Diets
New studies spearheaded by the University of Utah show that human ancestors expanded their menu 3.5 million years ago. Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs. Adding tropical grasses and sedges to an ape-like diet and setting the stage for our modern diet of grains, grasses and meat and dairy from grazing animals. In four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from scores of human ancestors and baboons in Africa from ...
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