Real Paleo Diet: Anything Early Hominids Could Find

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 15:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Early hominids didn’t have a lot of time to whip up coconut flour pancakes. Credit: United ArtistsReconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had something to say. Like much of our understanding of early hominid behavior, the imagined diet of our ancestors has also been over-simplified. read more

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