Grasses may have helped fuel our evolution
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
The arrival of a new variety of plants, particularly grasses, may have altered the environment in ways that could have helped push our ancestors to acquire traits that would come to define modern humans.
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