Post-canine megadontia
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Post-canine megadontia is a great enlargement of the molars and premolars which is found in early hominid ancestors such as Paranthropus aethiopicus
. It is considered to be evidence for vegetarianism, as the robust size would result from the eating of tough, hard shelled food such as seeds and nuts.
Paranthropus aethiopicus
Paranthropus aethiopicus is an extinct species of hominid. The finding discovered in 1985 by Alan Walker in West Turkana, Kenya, KNM WT 17000 , is one of the earliest examples of robust pliocene hominids...
. It is considered to be evidence for vegetarianism, as the robust size would result from the eating of tough, hard shelled food such as seeds and nuts.