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Aug. 13, 2010
Study Suggests Earlier Meat Eating In Hominids
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| A new study in the journal Nature suggests that the butchering of animals with tools by hominids occurred nearly a million years earlier than anthropologists thought. Study author Zeresenay Alemseged and anthroplogist David DeGusta discuss the finding and explain what it might add to our understanding of human evolution. Más En Español. |
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Zeresenay Alemseged
Director and Curator, Anthropology
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, California -
David DeGusta
Former Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Founder, Paleoanthropology Institute
Oakland, California
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