Did apes evolve upright stature to eat leaves?
"Putting together the locomotion, the diet, and the environment, we basically discovered a new model for ape origins."
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"Putting together the locomotion, the diet, and the environment, we basically discovered a new model for ape origins."
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 - The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands and causing our forest-loving ape ancestors to abandon the trees an
Evidence of an early savannah grass growing millions of years earlier than previously known may fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. A pair of studies funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant open-habitat grasses in eastern Africa and how those environments likely influenced early ape evolution.
Scientists said the primate's remains sheds fresh light on evolution.
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