Re: Superiority of the human feces


Peter Alaca wrote:
Tom McDonald wrote:
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Peter Alaca wrote:
" Human feces reveal much about ancient human
dietary practices. The oldest know are from
Homo erectus at Terra Amata (France) that may
date to 300,000 ya.
"Fossilized feces" are called coprolites.
How can you tell if they are human? Human
coprolites soaked in trisodium phosphate
solution for 72 hours turn brown to black. No
other species produces this effect. "

(Note in a reader, from "The Evolution of Human
Nutrition" by Barry Bogin.)

Good job you don't have to use the technique by which
fossilized bone is differentiated from rock.

Human bone?

Any bone.

Tell me more.

It has to do with...no, I can't bring myself to say. <blush>

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