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The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans kernsverlag.com Jul 30, 2022 14 facts
claimThere is increasing direct evidence that Neanderthals consumed plant foods, leading to a growing awareness of similarities in the dietary niches of modern and archaic humans in Eurasia.
referenceS. O’Connor, R. Ono, and C. Clarkson provided evidence of pelagic fishing by modern humans 42,000 years before the present in a 2011 study.
referenceThe division of labor among Neanderthals and modern humans in Eurasia is the subject of the 2006 study 'What’s a Mother to Do? The Division of Labor among Neandertals and Modern Humans in Eurasia' published in Current Anthropology.
claimThe Upper Paleolithic period was characterized by a continued increase in the contribution of small game to the diets of early modern humans and the adoption of technological changes, such as increased use of grinding technologies.
claimThe presence of amylase-binding protein genes in the oral microbiomes of both modern humans and Neanderthals suggests that starch consumption increased prior to the evolutionary split between the two groups.
claimModern humans in South Africa were cooking underground storage organs (USOs) by 170,000 years ago.
claimThe foraging practices observed in early modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic represent a continuation of behaviors already displayed by Neanderthals.
claimA copy number expansion in the AMY1 gene occurred after the evolutionary split between Neanderthals and modern humans approximately 650,000 years ago, but prior to the migration of humans out of Africa.
perspectiveThe pattern of economic roles and technological specialization in early modern humans appears to be more gradual and spatially diverse than the model originally proposed by Kuhn and Stiner.
claimDirect comparison of dental calculus from Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe shows no obvious difference between modern humans and Neanderthals in the range of plant taxa consumed or in evidence for cooking practices.
claimModern humans at Ngalue Cave in Mozambique were grinding seeds by 105,000 years ago, as evidenced by wild grass starch grains with processing damage found on stone tools such as scrapers and core/grinding tools (Mercader 2009).
claimThe consumption of plant foods was a factor in the movement of archaic and modern humans into marginal environments and contributed to the success of modern human populations.
claimModern humans and Neanderthals possess abundant oral Streptococci bacteria, which are absent in non-human primates; these bacteria contain amylase-binding protein genes that capture salivary amylase for nutrition and dental adhesion.
claimThe 'hyper-carnivore hypothesis' posits that Homo erectus and later Middle Paleolithic hominins, including Neanderthals and early modern humans, derived over 70% of their caloric intake from animal foods (Ben-Dor et al. 2011, 2021; Ben-Dor and Barkai 2021).
Nutritional Evolution – Human Origin and Evolution ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in 2 facts
claimAfter transitioning from an arboreal to a terrestrial lifestyle, ancestors of modern humans adopted a hunting-gathering-scavenging niche that allowed them to exploit a wide array of nutrients, including both vegetable and animal protein.
claimAlthough ancestors of modern humans possessed the ability to digest animal protein, they subsisted mainly on a vegetarian diet while living in trees.
The Evolution of Diet - National Geographic nationalgeographic.com 2 facts
How do we know what they ate? - The Australian Museum australian.museum Oct 21, 2020 1 fact
claimApproximately 15 primate species, including chimpanzees and modern humans, have been proven to practice or have practiced cannibalism.