Monday, July 30, 2012

Neanderthals ate their greens

Neanderthals were thought to eat only meat, but investigation of their dental plaque suggests they consumed cooked plants.



The vision of them as inflexible carnivores has even been used to suggest that they went extinct around 25,000 years ago as a result of food scarcity, whereas omnivorous humans were able to survive.




nature.com

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