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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
It has been hypothesised that an adaptive shift to a starch-rich diet was an important driver in human evolution and supported the energetic requirements to sustain brain development throughout hominin evolution. Plants that possess underground storage organs (geophytes) have been put forward as the...
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Department of Archaeology
2022
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