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SCIENCE ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax3250
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- INSU program TelluS-Rift (CNRS)
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- National Research Foundation
- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for the Palaeosciences
- Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship [798583 BIOISOK IEF]
Nursing is pivotal in the social and biological evolution of hominins, but to date, early-life behavior among hominin lineages is a matter of debate. The calcium isotopic compositions (delta Ca-44/42) of tooth enamel can provide dietary information on this period. Here, we measure the delta Ca-44/42 values in spatially located microsized regions in tooth enamel of 37 South African hominins to reconstruct early-life dietary-specific variability in Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, and early Homo. Very low delta Ca-44/42 values (<-1.4 parts per thousand), indicative of milk consumption, are measured in early Homo but not in A. africanus and P. robustus. In these latter taxa, transitional or adult nonmilk foods must have been provided in substantial quantities relative to breast milk rapidly after birth. The results suggest that early Homo have continued a predominantly breast milk-based nursing period for longer than A. africanus and P. robustus and have consequently more prolonged interbirth interval.
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