Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Some Prehumans Feasted on Bark Instead of Grasses

[NY Times]  Almost two million years after their last meals, two members of a prehuman species in southern Africa left traces in their teeth of what they had eaten then, as well as over a lifetime of foraging. Scientists were surprised to find that these hominins apparently lived almost exclusively on a diet of leaves, fruits, wood and bark.