Human adaptations to meat eating |
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| Authors: | M Henneberg V Sarafis K Mathers |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide, 5005 Adelaide, Australia;(2) Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, 4072 Brisbane, Australia;(3) Department of Anthropology, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, USA |
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| Abstract: | It is argued that Homo sapiens is a habitual rather than a facultative meat eater. Quantitative similarity of human gut morphology
to guts of carnivorous mammals, preferential absorption of haem rather than iron of plant origin, and the exclusive use of
humans as the definitive host by Taenia saginata and the almost complete human specificity of T. solium are used to support
the argument. |
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| Keywords: | australopithecinae Tacniods parasites hominids |
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