May 7, 2007

Isotopic ecology of African mole rats and early hominin diets

From my alma mater comes a research study where African mole rats are used as a point of reference to understand the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. I caught this new yesterday off of Nature but Yann has also shared it with us.
The basic method, isotopic analysis, is a tried and true method [...]