date:Mar 11, 2016
tone tools to process their food, reducing the amount of time and effort needed to chew it.
By processing food, especially meat, before eating it, humans not only decrease the effort needed to chew it, but also chew it much more effectively, says Katie Zink, the first author of the study, and a lecturer working in the lab of Daniel Lieberman, the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences. Eating meat and using stone tools to process food apparently made possible key reductions in the