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ugg boots schweiz, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says the facial structure of our early human ancestors appear to have evolved to allow them to eat large, hard nuts to survive.
Dennis Slice of Florida State University said the findings
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The face of the early human relative
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An international team of researchers found A. africanus might have used bicuspids and a structurally reinforced face to crack open and ingest large
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"It is possible that their facial architecture was driven not by their day-to-day activities but by their capacity to survive hard times by switching to what are called 'fallback foods
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