肉类和下古石器时代的食品加工技术对人类的影响
Katherine D Zink1, Daniel E Lieberman1
1Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Nature
|March 10, 2016
概括
早期的Homo物种像Homo erectus进化了更大的身体, 但有更小的牙和肠道. 这项研究表明石器加工肉类和地下储存器官显著减少了力,使这些进化变化成为可能.
科学领域:
- 古人类学
- 人类的进化
- 生物考古学
背景情况:
- 人类,特别是直立人, 显示大脑和身体大小增加, 需要更高的能量摄入量.
- 这与和消化能力的降低相吻合,
- 这种悖论的假设包括饮食转向肉类,机械食品加工或.
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