AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING: Australopithecus Not Much of a Nutcracker

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Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 608 - 609
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5876.608b

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
Australopithecus Not Much of a Nutcracker

Ann Gibbons

Several researchers reported at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting that different analytical methods suggest that robust australopithecines didn't eat hard nuts and seeds routinely as had been thought, and that robust and gracile hominids actually ate similar fare.

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