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- The earliest known hominins walked upright on two legs but spent significant time in trees and did not appear to manufacture stone tools.
- Early hominins used stone tools to facilitate a dietary shift from primarily plant-based diets to diets incorporating meat.
- Jessica Thompson of Yale University and her colleagues argue that before hominins invented stone tools suitable for hunting large animals, they may have used simpler implements to scavenge abandoned carcasses for nutritious marrow and brains.
- The oldest stone tools are approximately 2.5 million years old, which makes it difficult to extrapolate information about cannibalism in hominins prior to that time.
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To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything scientificamerican.com 2 facts
claimThe earliest known hominins walked upright on two legs but spent significant time in trees and did not appear to manufacture stone tools.
claimJessica Thompson of Yale University and her colleagues argue that before hominins invented stone tools suitable for hunting large animals, they may have used simpler implements to scavenge abandoned carcasses for nutritious marrow and brains.
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claimEarly hominins used stone tools to facilitate a dietary shift from primarily plant-based diets to diets incorporating meat.
How do we know what they ate? - The Australian Museum australian.museum 1 fact
measurementThe oldest stone tools are approximately 2.5 million years old, which makes it difficult to extrapolate information about cannibalism in hominins prior to that time.