Evidence for dietary change but not landscape use in South African early hominins

Vincent Balter (), José Braga, Philippe Télouk and J. Francis Thackeray
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Vincent Balter: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR 5276, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 15 parvis René Descartes BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
José Braga: Computer-assisted Palaeoanthropology Team, UMR 5288, CNRS, Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier, 37 Allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France
Philippe Télouk: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR 5276, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 15 parvis René Descartes BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
J. Francis Thackeray: Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7417, 558-560

Abstract: Analyses of strontium elemental and isotopic ratios in fossil teeth show that Australopithecus africanus—the presumed ancestor of early Homo and Paranthropus robustus—had a much more varied diet than Homo and Paranthropus; this sheds light on the diet and home ranges of fossil hominins.

Date: 2012
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