A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton University has found evidence that early hominins living in South Africa ate a mostly vegetarian diet. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group conducted isotopic analysis of fossilized teeth found in the region looking for evidence of meat consumption.

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Isotopes in early South African hominin teeth show they ate little meat

A new method of isotopic analysis makes it possible to shed light on the transition to a more meat-based diet in our bloodline, which is presumed to be the driver of our brain growth.

Une nouvelle méthode d’analyse isotopique permet d’éclairer le passage à une alimentation plus carnée dans notre lignée, moteur présumé de la croissance de notre cerveau.

La part de la viande dans le menu d’australopithèques révélée par leurs dents

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The portion of meat in the menu of Australopithecines revealed by their teeth

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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 struggled to determine when meat consumption began and who did it.

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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus: study

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 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 displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat, relying on a…

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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

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Early human ancestors didn't regularly eat meat

It is possible that our earliest ancestors ate more salad than steak.The chemical makeup analysis of fossilized teeth in Australopithecus...

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Meat was not commonly consumed by the early human ancestors

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The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as the increase in the size of the brain, but scientists have found it difficult to determine when its consumption began. A new research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important ancestor of the early humans who presented a mixture of simiesque and human traits, consumed very little or no…

La incorporación de la carne a la dieta fue un hito para el linaje evolutivo humano, un catalizador potencial de avances como el aumento del tamaño del cerebro, pero los científicos han tenido dificultades para determinar cuándo comenzó su consumo. Una nueva investigación aporta las primeras pruebas directas de que el Australopithecus, un importante antepasado de los primeros humanos que presentaba una mezcla de rasgos simiescos y humanos, consu…

Isotopes in early South African hominin teeth show they ate little meat

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