Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans
Sección: Arqueología Machadines
Creado: 14-07-19 (Actualizado: 17-07-19)
The genus Homo had considerably smaller cheek teeth, chewing muscles and jaws than earlier hominins; here, the introduction of raw but processed meat, from which energy could more easily be extracted, is shown to have possibly been responsible for this change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16990