Influences on plant nutritional variation and their potential effects on hominin diet selection

摘要: Abstract The selection of foods in any environment depends on a variety factors, including the nutrient availability and antifeedant loads component habitats. How these nutritional properties vary covary time space is not well known, particularly among wild plant species. We collected samples from several habitats within Cradle Humankind World Heritage Site South Africa, measured their macronutrient order to explore how season, habitat, type, organ affected quality potential foods. Our results have implications for early hominin use similar