New Insights into the Evolution of the Human Diet from Faecal Biomarker Analysis in Wild Chimpanzee and Gorilla Faeces

Our understanding of early human diets is based on reconstructed biomechanics of hominin jaws, bone and teeth isotopic data, tooth wear patterns, lithic, taphonomic and zooarchaeological data, which do not provide information about the relative amounts of different types of foods that contributed mo...

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Main Authors: Wrangham, Richard (Author), Rothman, Jessica M. (Author), Sistiaga Guiterrez, Maria Ainara (Contributor), Summons, Roger Everett (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2015-08-21T12:05:57Z.
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