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Hunter-gatherer diets weren’t always heavy on meat: Morocco study reveals a plant-based diet

      By Zineb Moubtahij, Leiden University     About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic Revolution, dramatically altered our diets. For decades, scientists have thought that pre-agricultural human groups ate a lot of animal protein. But analysis has always been hampered by a scarcity of well-preserved human remains from Pleistocene sites. So, in fact, […]

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