A Buffet for Early Human Relatives 1.8 Million Years Ago

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Illustration of Paranthropus in southern Africa 1 to million years ago. Credit: Artwork by Walter Voigt -provided by Lee Berger and Brett Hilton-Barber.
Illustration of Paranthropus in southern Africa 1 to million years ago. Credit: Artwork by Walter Voigt -provided by Lee Berger and Brett Hilton-Barber.

University of Utah scientists improved a method of testing fossil teeth, and showed that early human relatives varied their diets with the seasons 1.8 million years ago, eating leaves and fruit when available in addition to seeds, roots, tubers and perhaps grazing animals.


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