A.robustus diet included sedges

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoca-vdo110606.php

"diverse diet ranging from fruits and nuts to sedges, grasses, seeds and
perhaps even animals ... moving back and forth between forested areas rich
in fruits to a savanna and grassland landscape, perhaps along sedge-rich
waterways ..."

:-)

Finally. What took them so long? I proposed this already more than 10 years
ago, eg:
1992. Did robust australopithecines partly feed on hard parts of Gramineae?
Hum.Evol.7:63-64.
1997. In den Beginne was het Water. Hadewijch, Antwerp.
1998. Wetland apes: hominid palaeo-environment and diet. MA Raath, H
Soodyall, D Barkhan, KL Kuykendall & PV Tobias eds. Dual Congress. Univ
Witwatersrand J'burg:47.
2000. (with P-F Puech) Hominid lifestyle and diet reconsidered:
paleo-environmental and comparative data. Hum.Evol.15:175-186.
2002. (with P-F Puech & S Munro) Aquarboreal ancestors? Trends in Ecology &
Evolution 17:212-7.

http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Fil/Verhaegen_Human_Evolution.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT


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