Diet and Archeology
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For many years, the use of fire has been central to the discussion of human evolution. When was fire first controlled, and when was it first actually made by man?
Gigantopithecus has often been described as a bamboo eater, based on analogy with another kind of large herbivore in China, the giant panda. Giant pandas have several specialized feeding adaptations to support their bamboo diet. The most famous of these is the expansion of what we would call a wrist bone in most mammals, a sesamoid bone associated with the distal radius.
