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'Nutcracker Man' wasn’t so nutty

By PETER ORENGO and AFP

He traversed across East Africa two million years ago and had the powerful jaws and big chompers to crack the toughest of shells, but a new study shows that the ancient human relative "Nutcracker Man" actually preferred to munch on grass.

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