July 1st, 2012
The diet of Australopithecus sediba
July 01, 2012This is the title of a paper appearing last week in the journal Nature. A careful examination of fossilized tooth enamel and a plaque from this intriguing (and controversial) taxon discovered at a site called Malapa in South Africa in 2008, provides a detailed insight to the diet of one species of hominin at a particular place and time.