Tag: homo erectus
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PBS Eons: The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the “paleo” diet of Homo erectus. We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been…
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Half-tonne birds may have roamed Europe at same time as humans
The Guardian has a post about large flightless bird that might have roamed Europe at the same time. Researchers discovered the fossilized thigh bone of a giant bird in a cave on the Crimean peninsula. It belonged to an animal called Pachystruthio dmanisensis, which lived between 1.5 and 1.6 million years ago. This bone and…
