Thursday, 12 July 2012

Paleoanthropology - What did our ancestors eat?

Pretty cool article in Nature that is investigating what australopithecines ate by using proportion of stable isotopes of carbon contained in fossilized teeth.

An overview of the article:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7405/full/487042a.html

And the article:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7405/full/nature11185.html

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