321 CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS On a separate sheet of paper, answer the followi

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321 CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions. 1. This question may be completed independently or as a group discussion. Imagine a biological anthropologist 10,000 years in the future is examining our fossil remains. The anthropologist notices that humans have broad incisors and molars with rounded cusps. What diet would these traits indicate? Would this be accurate? Why might humans have these traits, as opposed to the specialized teeth we see with other primate diets?

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Broad incisors and molars with rounded cusps incates the sign of frugivory(fruit eating).

Hence,diet of the humans may be fruits and vegetables because large incisors helps to tear the fruit parts and rounded molars are used for crushing fruits parts.

Other primates also contains large canine as compared to humans.because most of them are omnivores.

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