The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans: A Perspective from Across the Wallace Line

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In recent years, new evidence for the early use of plant foods has challenged the stereotype of the meat-eating Paleolithic. Whilst often making up the smaller component of the diet, plant foods are key to hominin diets, carbohydrates especially providing an efficient energy resource.