Before the teeth: How early humans adapted their diet 700,000 years ago
"This discovery confirms the hypothesis that behavioral adaptations, such as the deliberate choice to eat new foods, can precede morphological changes, playing a key role in evolution."
Chronologically from left, the molars of human ancestors got longer over millennia to suit a diet of high-carb grassy plants.(photo credit: Public domain; Don Hitchcock; Fernando Losada Rodríguez (rotated))ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF