Sentences with phrase «ancient human diets»

Ancient human diets, like those of our fellow great apes, largely consisted of plants, so they likely produced more base than acid in the kidneys of our ancestors.

«We have used a relatively new method known as ancient starch analysis to analyse ancient human diet.

Nuts and seeds are also the reproductive material of plants and they are both a staple of the ancient human diet (most likely) and a nutrient and calorie - dense food.

In case you're new to the science of Paleolithic nutrition, humans don't actually need grains to survive... grains were never a part of the ancient human diet until agriculture came around only about ten thousand years ago.

Not exact matches

It actually is possible for us to know what sort of diet our remote ancestors ingested, because the paleontologists, (anthropologists who study ancient sites etc) painstakingly collect human droppings, which are then analyzed for components which tell us what they ate.

While ancient fossils from hominins are not yet available for glycan analysis, this proof - of - concept study, published September 11, 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may set the stage for unprecedented explorations of human origins and diet.

«If we can then relate that to ancient human species... What this paper shows is the sagittal crest might also play a role in how those hominins are developing social structures that can then be linked to biology beyond diet.»

Ancient cultures around the globe have long valued organ meats as a primary staple to the human diet.

What we do know of human consumption of fiber is incompatible with a meat - dominant diet; there is just too much plant matter to allow very much meat at all in ancient diets.

Could it be diets that incorporate the «ancient grains» that are hot in the world of human food right now?

For another, the ancient canines had to adapt to their new human environment in more ways than one — for example, their diet changed, which favored different physical traits.