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The findings suggest we weren’t the first advanced carnivore among the hominins, as has been previously assumed.
Teeth covered in pits were common in the 2m-year-old species Paranthropus robustus.
Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.
