Modeling Digestive Strategies of Fossil Hominids

  • Caton, Judith (PI)

    Project: Research

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    Description

    Theories that human predecessors were carnivores, which date back to the first fossil discoveries, overlook evidence to the contrary from living hominids. In this project, for the first time, comparative data on diets, gastro-intestinal morphology and physiology of living hominids will be used to model digestive strategies of fossil species. As the resultant models are based on new data from apes and humans, they be more realistic and based in an evolutionary context. Models of fossil hominid digestive strategies will be used to re-assess the importance of meat-eating in human evolution, providing new insights into human diets and gut function.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date5/02/014/02/04

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