Photos by Quentin Martinez.

Interesting article on how the human desire to eat insects may be genetic.

“The only species that have five chitinases today are highly insectivorous, that is, 80 to 100 percent of their diet consists of insects. Since the earliest placental mammals likely had five chitinases, we think that this makes for a strong argument that they were highly insectivorous,” Emerling said.

Click here to read the full article “What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors” by Robert Sanders for Berkeley News.