Our early ancestors weren't big meat eaters after all

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The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains. Australopithecus africanus—a bipedal primate that lived between 3.2 and 2 million years ago—were primarily vegetarians.

How do we know? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry …