Early man species lived on tiger nuts or bulbs of grass instead of meat 2.4 million years ago according to a study in the Public Library of Science's journal Fox News reported Friday.
"Tiger nuts, still sold in health food shops as well as being widely used for grinding down and baking in many countries, would be relatively easy to find," Gabriele Macho of Oxford University's Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art told Fox News.The species also ate fruits, invertebrates, such as worms, grasshoppers according to information in the study Fox News reported."They also provided a good source of nourishment for a medium-sized hominin with a large brain," Macho told Fox News. "This is why these hominins were able to survive for around one million years because they could successfully forage - even through periods of climatic change," Machol told Fox News.
Macho contrasted the human species food selections to the Nutcracker Man diet also called Paranthropus boisei for their large and flat molar teeth, and strong jaws Fox News reported.Scientists have long contemplated if humans would have been able to survive on foods with lots of fiber Fox News reported.
The study found that baboons or monkeys residing in conditions resembling the early species ate the same foods for their abundant minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids vital to their hominin brain Fox News reported.
Tiger nuts also known as Cyperus esculentus have a lot of starch according to the study Fox News reported. Tiger nuts are also uncontrollable if they are not heated.Macho determined the species teeth damage is attributed to the starches Fox News reported.The same bearings on baboon monkey's teeth lead tell scientists how they eat Fox News reported.
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación supported the project according to information in the study.
