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Microbes in Neanderthals’ mouths reveal their carb-laden diet – Nature.com
Gunk on ancient teeth yields bacterial DNA, allowing scientists to trace the oral microbiome’s evolution.
Neanderthals mouths teemed with bacteria that break down starchy food, suggesting that a carbohydrate-rich diet has ancient roots in the human family tree.
An animals diet, genetics and habits can all shape the diverse set of microscopic organisms in its mouth. To probe the history of humans oral microbiome, James Fellows Yates at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of microbes scraped from the teeth of primates and…
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