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Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant

The worldwide association of H. erectus with elephants is well documented and so is the preference of humans for fat as a source of energy. We show that rather than a matter of preference, H. erectus in the Levant was dependent on both elephants and fat for his survival. The disappearance of elephan...

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Autores principales: Ben-Dor, Miki, Gopher, Avi, Hershkovitz, Israel, Barkai, Ran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028689