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Researchers Just Looked at Neanderthal Poop to Understand Their Guts – Gizmodo Australia
Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home — and a bathroom — out of what is now a rocky escarpment south of Valencia, Spain. Over the last few…
Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home and a bathroom out of what is now a rocky escarpment south of Valencia, Spain. Over the last few years, some of those paleo-poops, the oldest known to come from a human species, have been excavated and analysed. Now, researchers have caught a glimpse of the ecosystems that existed in the guts of those early hominins, from a faecal deposit in the remnants of a fire pit on the site.
Over 200 bacterial microorganisms were extracted from the…
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