Monday, July 13, 2009

When Humans Start Eating Fish?

New research shows, that people began to eat the fish in the 40,000 years ago. To reach the conclusion that, scientists analyze the chemical compound of collagen protein in the ancient human skull, from the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing.

Catch fish at the time of the work is heavy. This is seen from the fossil shows a man using a device that has not been adequate, up to 50,000 years ago.

"This analysis provides the first direct evidence that food consumption in the water and life on the implications of demographic and ancient power of human life," said Michael P Richards from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Other researchers think the fish consumption have helped the human brain is greater. Although the protein's Feed the animals ashore about 2 million years ago as a factor that is also important.

Movement is caused by eating fish population is increasing while modern humans began to appear throughout Eurasia. The findings are reported in the play in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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