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Did early African hominids eat meat?

Vogel, G.

Science 283(5400): 303

1999

ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075
PMID: 9925479
Document Number: 503490
In this issue, researchers report an ingenious new way to determine the diet of an early hominid in African woodlands 3 million years ago. Herbivores incorporate the isotopic signature of certain plants into their bodies, and carnivores absorb the isotopic signature of their prey. Paleoanthropologist Julia Lee-Thorp of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and graduate student Matt Sponheimer of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, examined carbon isotopes in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus africanus to reveal the hominid's varied diet, including either grassland plants or animals that themselves ate grasses.

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