Becoming Human

A technique to tease out the dietary history of fossilized hominins    has been used with some of the more recent hominins in the human lineage, such as  H. sapiens and H. neanderthalensis.

A technique to tease out the dietary history of fossilized hominins  then  has been used with some of the more recent hominins in the human lineage, such as  H. sapiens and H. neanderthalensis. In a paper published in the 15 July Edition of the journal nature, a team led by Renaud Joannes-Boyau reports on the use of this technique with two fossil specimens from the species A.

Two fossils found in Apidima Cave southern Greece,  in the early 70s have yielded startling results after undergoing reanalysis, according to a paper published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature and named Apidima 1 and 2.  The paper is entitled “Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia” by Harvati et al.