Posted on 12/27/2010 2:01:06 PM PST by decimon
WASHINGTON (AFP) A US study on Monday found that Neanderthals, prehistoric cousins of humans, ate grains and vegetables as well as meat, cooking them over fire in the same way homo sapiens did.
The new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges a prevailing theory that Neanderthals' over reliance on meat contributed to their extinction around 30,000 years ago.
Researchers found grains from numerous plants, including a type of wild grass, as well as traces of roots and tubers, trapped in plaque buildup on fossilized Neanderthal teeth unearthed in northern Europe and Iraq.
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Can you give me a link to that report/article? (Thanks)
A newly discovered human species likely wore heavy clothing and bracelets and hunted woolly mammoths.
* An unknown type of human lived in Siberia 30,000 to 50,000 years ago.
* The early human coexisted with modern humans and Neanderthals.
* This is the first time a human species has been described only from its DNA.
Never mind, I found it:
I believe in the paleo diet and I think humans are closer to canids than to chimps. We’re meant to eat a mostly meat diet.
And furthermore he should have been a pink skinned redhead to survive with the minimal sun of the ice age north.
If you like evolution, I urge you to read “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” written by Sean Carroll several years ago. It wonderfully explains the economy and reuse of genetic details over millions on years. Lots of good material for scientific vs. religious arguments.
I think I just did from the article itself, knowing you would probably be interested in it.
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