As Europe’s Stone Age began to wind down 30,000 years ago, Homo sapiens developed a taste for fish and waterfowl that Neandertals apparently couldn’t fathom. The move to such nouveau cuisine helped seal the evolutionary fates of these two groups, according to a report in the May 22 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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