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Paleoanthropology

the hypothesis that a shift to plant underground storage organs as fallback foods underlay the origin and adaptations of the australopiths.

In paleoanthropology, USO hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that a shift to plant underground storage organs as fallback foods underlay the origin and adaptations of the australopiths. This meaning comes from Laden (2005) in Journal of Human Evolution.[1]

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Laden, G., & Wrangham, R. (2005). The rise of the hominids as an adaptive shift in fallback foods: Plant underground storage organs (USOs) and australopith origins. Journal of Human Evolution, 49(4), 482-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.05.007

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