Our early ancestors weren't big meat eaters after all
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 …
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