Chew On This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/09/469676852/chew-on-this-slicing-meat-helped-shape-modern-humans?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

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Miss Manners and skilled prep cooks should be pleased: Our early human ancestors likely mastered the art of chopping and slicing more than 2 million years ago. Not only did this yield daintier pieces of meat and vegetables that were much easier to digest raw, with less chewing — it also helped us along the road to becoming modern humans, researchers reported Wednesday.

And our ancestors picked up these skills at least 1.5 million years before c…

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