Clever eating

Only two types of primate survived the climate catastrophe, says Domínguez-Rodrigo. There was a "plant-processing machine on the one hand and a meat-eating machine on the other hand", he says. "The meat-eating machine evolved a bigger brain."

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2016-03, Vol.531 (7592), p.S12
1. Verfasser: Gupta, Sujata
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Only two types of primate survived the climate catastrophe, says Domínguez-Rodrigo. There was a "plant-processing machine on the one hand and a meat-eating machine on the other hand", he says. "The meat-eating machine evolved a bigger brain."
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/531S12a