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A buffet for early human relatives

University of Utah scientists improved a method of testing fossil teeth, and showed that early human relatives varied their diets with the seasons 1.8 million years ago, eating leaves and fruit when available in addition to seeds, roots, tubers and perhaps grazing animals. The study shows that the variability in human diet has been "in the family" for a very long time.

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