Human ancestors living in East Africa 2 million years ago weren’t a steak-and-potatoes crowd. But they had a serious hankering for gazelle meat and antelope brains, fossils discovered in Kenya indicate.
MEATY FINDS Researchers at Kanjera South in Kenya excavate a site where stone-tool marks on animal bones suggest that human ancestors hunted small game and scavenged larger creatures’ carcasses about 2 million years ago.
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