Cavemen Craved Carbs, Too

摘要

Thank goodness they didn't brush. Plaque stuck to the teeth of three Neandertals who died more than 35,000 years ago has yielded evidence that the hominids ate plant food, including cooked plants, and not exclusively meat, as some scientists have suggested. No one knows why Neandertals disappeared about 25,000 to 30,000 years ago, as modern humans spread across Europe. Some data have suggested that they ate almost exclusively big game, which led to a hypothesis that they couldn't get enough calories to compete with modern humans.