Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans

The genus Homo had considerably smaller cheek teeth, chewing muscles and jaws than earlier hominins; here, the introduction of raw but processed meat, from which energy could more easily be extracted, is shown to have possibly been responsible for this change. Food processing in the Palaeolithic era...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2016-03, Vol.531 (7595), p.500-503
Hauptverfasser: Zink, Katherine D., Lieberman, Daniel E.
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