How sliced meat drove human evolution

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Jane10 Fri 11-Mar-16 07:44:44

Alea grin !

Alea Fri 11-Mar-16 07:33:56

Fancy that.

Chewing on a whole hairy mammoth probably didn't foster polite ~~table~~ cave conversation . I imagine early Stone Age mum admonishing Stone Age kid "Don't talk with your mouth full!"

(And nobody like a tough vegetation sandwich )

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thatbags Fri 11-Mar-16 07:02:30

It seems that meat-eating by early hominins, and in particular, eating meat they'd sliced up using stone tools, is one of the main features that allowed our brains, our skulls, and our jaws to develop the ability to talk.

Pounding tough vegetationto eat, e.g. fibrous roots, also helped.

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