Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

By N. Dominy, E. Vogel, J. Yeakel, Paul J. Constantino, P. Lucas. Evolutionary biology, 2008

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Importance of Honey Consumption in Human Evolution (2011, background): “Most Paleolithic diet reconstructions emphasize the vital role that meat (Bunn 2007; Cordain et al. 2001; Eaton et al. 1998; Stanford and Bunn 2001) and/or tubers (Dominy et al. 2008; Hawkes et al. 1997; Wrangham et al. 1999) played in the shifting diet of early Homo.”
• The human gut microbiome: ecology and recent evolutionary changes. (2011, background): “Cooking would have allowed early humans to consume a wider range of foods that were otherwise too tough for human consumption (21, 52).”
• Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change (2010, background): “The quality of underground storage organisms as food for hominins would have been greatly enhanced by cooking (Dominy et al. 2008), another specifically human biological (or biocultural) trait (Wrangham and Conklin-Brittain 2003).”