Meat and Grain
A type of food coastal cultures consumed but inland ones did not, suggesting regional variation in diets
What is seafood? (fish acceptable)
This austrolapithecus afarensis lived about 3.2 million years ago
Who was Lucy?
The only species that regularly consumes milk past childhood
What are humans?
The number U.S. News and World Report ranked the Paleo Diet out of 20 diets
What is 20(th)?
The place plaque was found signaling the earliest know hominin starch consumption
What are (neanderthal) teeth?
This development signaled the end of the Paleolithic period
What is the advent of agriculture?
A phenomenon exemplified by the fact that lactose adaptions evolved separately in different populations
What is convergent evolution?
The enzyme is saliva that helps break down starch
What is amylase?
The animals' presence near hominin fossils, combined with its reliance on tubers, suggests humans consumed starch earlier than originally thought
What are molerats?
A hominin species living in Europe 50,000 years ago
What are neanderthals?
Populations who engaged in it were more likely to develop lactose tolerance
What is cattle herding?
The first apes evolved around this many years ago
What is 5-7 million? (accept anything within range)
This weapon's invention 30,000 years ago led to an increase in meat in the human diet
What is the bow?
Analysis of them in our digestive system allows for better understanding of historical human diets
What are microbes/microorganisms?
The approximate number of millennia it took lactose tolerance to evolve in the most rapidly evolving African populations
What is 3?
An action we engage in less than our ancestors, due to the fact that modern foods tend to be less fibrous, and leading to worse dental health
What is chewing?
A nation in which the presence of amylase in modern hunter-gatherer populations suggests reversion from agriculture (Name 1 of 2)
What is Laos? or What is Thailand?
The theory associated with the fact that humans are genetically less variable than chimps and other primates
What is the Out of Africa theory? (Small initial population acceptable)
The number of millennia ago cattle were first domesticated
What is 8-9?
A region whose monkeys, called cercopiths, were better adapted to starch consumption
What is the New World/American continents?