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Beyond meat: Prehumans were mostly vegetarians, new research shows
A new study has shed light on the diet of prehumans, the Australopithecus, remains of which were found in a cave in South Africa. It turns out that meat was very rarely, if ever, on the menu.
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...
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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 ...
Nature8d
Australopithecus africanus The Man-Ape of South Africa
TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...
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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 ...
NDTV26d
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 ...
NDTV25d
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 ...
News2429d
Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
But scientists have struggled to determine when meat consumption began and who did it. New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that ...
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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 ...
Science Daily26d
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine24d
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 ...