The diet of Australopithecus sediba

Amanda G. Henry (), Peter S. Ungar, Benjamin H. Passey, Matt Sponheimer, Lloyd Rossouw, Marion Bamford, Paul Sandberg, Darryl J. de Ruiter and Lee Berger
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Amanda G. Henry: Plant Foods and Hominin Dietary Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Peter S. Ungar: University of Arkansas, Old Main 330, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
Benjamin H. Passey: Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Matt Sponheimer: The Institute for Human Evolution, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lloyd Rossouw: National Museum Bloemfontein, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Marion Bamford: BPI Palaeontology, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
Paul Sandberg: University of Colorado at Boulder, 233 UCB
Darryl J. de Ruiter: The Institute for Human Evolution, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lee Berger: The Institute for Human Evolution, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7405, 90-93

Abstract: Phytolith, stable carbon isotope, and dental microwear texture data for two individuals of Au. sediba, 2-million-year-old hominins from South Africa, show that they consumed a mostly C3 diet that probably included harder foods, and both dicotyledons (for example, tree leaves, fruits, and wood or bark) and monocotyledons (for example, grasses and sedges); this diet contrasts with previously described diets of other early hominin species.

Date: 2012
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