New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published ...

She regularly travels to Africa to sample fossilized teeth for her analysis. Wits University owns the Sterkfontein Caves and is the custodian of the Australopithecus fossils. Nitrogen isotope ...

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Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

The research, published in Science, focused on specimens from the Sterkfontein cave near Johannesburg, part of South Africa’s “Cradle of Humankind,” an area renowned for its abundant early hominin ...

The researchers conducted an analysis of the nitrogen and carbon isotopes bound to the tooth enamel of 43 fossilized teeth, all of which had been found in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves.

The researchers analyzed seven fossilized molars found in the Sterkfontein cave near Johannesburg, part of South Africa's "Cradle of Humankind" area known for yielding early hominin fossils.

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Scientists analyzed fossilized teeth from the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa, a site rich in hominid fossils. The nitrogen isotopes measured in these samples indicate that Australopithecus were at ...