Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains

Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 13:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Human ancestors living in East Africa 2 million years ago weren’t a steak-and-potatoes crowd. But they had a serious hankering for gazelle meat and antelope brains, fossils discovered in Kenya indicate. Three sets of butchered animal bones unearthed at Kenya’s Ka …

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