Flower child

• Autores: Helen Pilcher
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2912, 2013, págs. 42-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fossil teeth suggest that insects were not the only food of early primates. Their flat, round molars were better suited to grinding fruit and plant material than they were to eating bugs. In fact, the vast majority of living primates eat a mixed diet including insects and plants. The few specialist insect eaters that do exist, like the tarsier, tend to use sound rather than vision to catch their prey. Here, Pilcher examines the special features that paved the way for human evolution