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Press ReleasesYou are what you eat:Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 12/13/2018. To eat what grows locally – today’s dietary trend was every day’s practice for prehistoric humans. Studying fossil tooth enamel, German researchers from the Senckenberg research institutes and Goethe University Frankfurt discovered that the early hominins Homo rudolfensis and the so-called Nutcracker Man, Paranthropus boisei, who both lived around 2.4 million years ago in Malawi, were surprisingly adaptable and changed their diet according to the availability of regional resources. Being this versatile contributed to their ability to thrive in different environments. The new findings from southeastern Africa close a significant gap in our knowledge, according to the researchers’ paper just published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA". >>> Read on http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5210&kid=2&id=4969 |