Eating carrion may have made us human: The importance of scavenging in our evolution

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), are the lead authors of the article recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution.