Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans

Katherine D. Zink () and Daniel E. Lieberman ()
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Katherine D. Zink: Harvard University
Daniel E. Lieberman: Harvard University

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7595, 500-503

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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