Ancient primates’ unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Just 21 of more than 400 teeth had fractures, suggesting early primates had soft-food diets
![A fossilized jawbone fragment with six teeth](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/122123_eg_primate-sweet-tooth_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
An analysis of hundreds of teeth from roughly 30-million-year-old fossils, including this Propliopithecus chirobates specimen, suggests early primates ate mostly soft foods such as fruit.
I. Towle et al/American Journal of Biological Anthropology 2023