Early human evolution driven by eating carbs when they weren’t meant to

Early human evolution driven by eating carbs when they weren’t meant to

Australopithecus afarensis (left), Homo rudolfensis (centre), Homo ergaster (right). Credit: Public domain; Don Hitchcock; Fernando Losada Rodríguez (rotated). Chemical analysis of early human ancestors shows that hominins were eating carbohydrate-rich foods before they even had the ideal teeth to do so. Such an adaptable diet may have been a driver of evolution in early humans. Our ancient ape ancestors may have climbed out of the trees and sta…