{"id":2138,"date":"2014-06-25T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2014-06-25T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T21:05:19","slug":"oldest-human-poo-shows-neanderthals-ate-their-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/oldest-human-poo-shows-neanderthals-ate-their-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest human poo shows Neanderthals ate their greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2130\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/75125_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2130\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/75125_web.jpg\" alt=\"Fossilized human droppings found at this site in El Salt, Spain show chemical evidence that Neanderthals consumed significant amounts of plants as well as meat (Photo credit: Ainara Sistiaga) \" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/75125_web.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/75125_web-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fossilized human droppings found at this site in El Salt, Spain show chemical evidence that Neanderthals consumed significant amounts of plants as well as meat (Photo credit: Ainara Sistiaga)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Chemical analysis of 50,000-year-old fossilized droppings found in Spain suggest that Neanderthals ate more greens than previously thought. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Researchers compared the levels of chemicals such as coprostanols &#8211; formed from meat in the digestive tract &#8211; to those of other chemicals like 5b-stigmastanol, which are digestive products of plants. They conclude that while Neanderthals ate mostly meat, they also had significant plant intake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0101045\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Ainara Sistiaga, University of La Laguna, Spain<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical analysis of 50,000-year-old fossilized droppings found in Spain suggest that Neanderthals ate more greens than previously thought. Researchers compared the levels of chemicals such as coprostanols &#8211; formed from meat in the digestive tract &#8211; to those of other chemicals like 5b-stigmastanol, which are digestive products of plants. They conclude that while Neanderthals ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,917,51,1830,1839],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-health","tag-human","tag-neanderthals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/75125_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}