Neanderthal Paleo diet was meat, veg and drugs

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3116, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Neanderthals living in prehistoric Belgium enjoyed their meat--but those in what's now northern Spain seem to have eaten an almost exclusively vegetarian diet. This is according to new DNA analysis that also suggests sick Neanderthals could self-medicate with naturally occurring painkillers and antibiotics. Now Laura Weyrich at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and her colleagues have shown that dental calculus carries ancient DNA that can reveal what Neanderthals ate and which bacteria lived in their mouths