A taste for fat may have made us human

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 09:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new paper in Current Anthropology. The paper argues that our early ancestors acquired a taste for fat by eating marrow scavenged from the skeletal remains of large animals that had been killed […]

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