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Neanderthals obtained protein in their diet from animal sources. [42] Evidence-based isotope studies show that Neanderthals ate primarily meat . [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Neanderthals were probably apex predators , [ 46 ] and fed predominantly on deer, namely red deer and reindeer , as they were the most abundant game, [ 47 ] but also on ibex , wild ...
What did Neanderthals eat? Were they carnivorous, or did they also chow down on vegetables and mushrooms?
An experiment involving mice fed raw versus cooked meat found that cooking meat did not increase the amount of calories taken up by mice, leading to the study's conclusion that the energetic gain is the same, if not greater, in raw meat diets than cooked meats. [63]
In February 2019, scientists reported evidence, based on isotope studies, that at least some Neanderthals may have eaten meat. [21] [22] [23] Nonetheless, instead of diet dominated by meat eating, the genetic and microbiological evidence from dental calculus implies reliance on mushrooms, pine nuts and a species of moss.
Neanderthals were much more intelligent than previously thought and were skilled enough to control fire and use it to cook food, according to a new study which suggests they lived closer to a ...
Those first modern humans that had interbred with Neanderthals and lived alongside them died out completely in Europe 40,000 years ago - but not before their offspring had spread further out into ...
In 2019, English anthropologist John Stewart and colleagues suggested Neanderthals instead were adapted for sprinting, because of evidence of Neanderthals preferring warmer wooded areas over the colder mammoth steppe, and DNA analysis indicating a higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibres in Neanderthals than in modern humans.
A big question plaguing paleoanthropologists - that is, people who study ancient humans - is just when did Neanderthals disappear? Most thought our early human ancestors went extinct about 30,000 ...