Early Meat-Eating Human Ancestors Thrived While Vegetarian Hominin Died Out
August 8th, 2012 |
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There has been fierce debate recently over whether the original “caveman” diet was one of heaps of bloody meat or fields of greens. New findings suggest that some of our early ancestors were actually quite omnivorous. But subsequently, our line and an ill-fated group of hominins developed very different dietary strategies. One chose meat while [...]
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Rise of Humans 2 Million Years Ago Doomed Large Carnivores
April 25th, 2012 |
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The impact of Homo sapiens on the environment over the past few hundred years has been so profound that some scientists term this chapter of Earth’s history the Anthropocene. But humans may have begun wreaking ecological havoc far, far earlier than that. A new theory suggests that a shift in the technology and diet of [...]
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