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How Mammals Process Plant Foods

View a video about animal diets. Compare the chewing structures of robust and gracile hominins. Answer questions about these different chewing adaptations.

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How Mammals Process Plant Foods

Compare Robust and Gracile Hominins

Paranthropus boisei
Robust

Homo ergaster
Gracile

1
What differences in the crania may be related to diet or the capabilities to process foods?
2
What can these differences tell us about the diets of these two organisms? List what you think the top five foodstuffs might be for each of these species.





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