HoMeCo in the media

5 minute- long video on German TV ( SWR). The research team was able to test the new dental analysis for the first time on seven prehumans of the genus Australopithecus.The results of the study published in the journal Scinece are clear: The research team finds no indication of meat in the teeth: "This does not mean that they have not eaten any meat at all, but in any case not enough to measure it or influence brain growth," says Tina Lüdecke. (German only) more

Emmy Noether Group leader Tina Lüdecke from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grant along with Cajetan Neubauer from the University of Colorado Boulder (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and Rani Bakkour from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The three-year funding, around U.S. $1 million in total, will support the international scientific team led by principal investigator Cajetan Neubauer ... more

For her research on the onset and evolution of early hominin meat consumption, Dr Tina Lüdecke will receive funding of more than €1.3 million from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Lüdecke is using this funding to set up her own Emmy Noether Junior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz. Starting in September Lüdecke’s group will over the next six years investigate when meat entered the diet of the human ancestors and how consumption developed. more