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

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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)

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.

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  • Vincent Balter & José Braga & Philippe Télouk & J. Francis Thackeray, 2012. "Evidence for dietary change but not landscape use in South African early hominins," Nature, Nature, vol. 489(7417), pages 558-560, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:489:y:2012:i:7417:d:10.1038_nature11349
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11349
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