Article Review Example: The Diet of the Early Hominins

For several decades, anthropologists have carried out studies to investigate the diet of the early hominins. They have done this through a survey of the tools that the hominins were using, life practices, a study of the sizes of their cheeks and the form, dental formula of the hominins and the diet which are considered to be the aspects that can reveal incidents and evidence of evolution. Additionally, the environment that the hominins lived in offers a chance for the anthropologist to have a hint of adaptation aspects that the sculps that were found in the areas suggests about the diet that the early hominids consumed.

From an analysis of the dental pattern of the sculps that was found in excavations by anthropologists, a thorough review of the tooth formation, plan spacing can suggest the transition of diet that the early hominins consumed. For instance, the large teeth that are well buttressed in skulls in conjunction with the massive chewing muscles of the Paranthropus suggest that the australopiths relied heavily on hard foods than the Australopithecus. Additionally, the tooth size, jaws, and structure give anthropologists clues about the kind of food that the early hominids consumed when connected to the stresses that the species passed through. From the current study that combines some behavioral aspects of primates that are in the line of hominins reveal vital information about the early hominins. The microwear and isotope evidence offers realistic evidence about the kind of food choices that early hominins ate according to the times that food was unavailable. For instance, the gorillas are found to have engaged in eating hard meals during the time that soft foods had been depleted.

The study of hominins diet in conjunction with microwear and carbon isotopes tries to reveal some vital information about the evolution of hominins. The study of the tools used by primates provides a comprehensive platform for the research by the physical anthropologists' characteristics and the possibility of the theory of evolution. Also, the study of tools used to find the hominins food offers a chance to check whether there might be future changes in the non-human primates as a result of the changing in their way of using tools. Additionally, the inquiry of the diet and tools used by the primates helps in providing the major clues to the significance of evolution, skeletal and muscular complexes that tend to underpin the human bipedalism. According to the kind of life that primates live, they tend to develop tools according to the way they survive by looking for food. Any change in their usual way of finding food and escaping by the use of their inherent skills makes them advance by creating tools to make their life easy.

The unearthed stone tools in the woodlands of Brazil, beaches of Thailand and the forests of West Africa suggest that there is a clear indication that primates show aspects of archaeology. The stone structures that were revealed indicate that chimpanzees have entered the stone age and tend to develop a culture that incorporates the routine use of stone-based technology. The use of stone to crack nuts also accompany the kind of teeth that the hominins had to survive with the type of food that was available. The more the hominins evolved and started to develop less complex and huge cheekbones, the more tools they made to crack hard foods.