Early human evolution driven by eating carbs when they weren’t meant to

By Evrim Yazgin – Cosmos

Chemical analysis of early human ancestors shows that hominins were eating carbohydrate-rich foods before they even had the ideal teeth to do so.

Such an adaptable diet may have been a driver of evolution in early humans.

Our ancient ape ancestors may have climbed out of the trees and started to walk on 2 legs as early as 7 million years ago. Scientists believe this was likely a response to the changing environment – the dense African forest where our ape ancestors evolved began to thin and be replaced with savannah and grassland as the global climate cooled and dried.