I just merged almost 20 short threads about what our ancestors may have eaten. Here's a new article I just came across, suggesting that our ancestors tended to "mostly eat vegetable matter":
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I just merged almost 20 short threads about what our ancestors may have eaten. Here's a new article I just came across, suggesting that our ancestors tended to "mostly eat vegetable matter":
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Ancient Human Ancestors Had Unique Diet
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ScienceDaily (June 27, 2012) — When it came to eating, an upright, 2 million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known...
...and just to illustrate further how little we still know about who our ancestors really were, where they lived, and in which periods the various species lived (let alone what they had for dinner),...
Some meat eaters claim that we should eat meat 'because our ancestors ate meat'. But not only is there no reason to copy what some - or many - of our ancestors did ********* years ago, there's an...
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/paranthropus-aethiopicus
Don't watch this clip, unless you are an occasional visitor who thinks that humans should eat what our ancestors are, which, as we know, included earthworms, larvae, beetles, mealworms etc. Actually,...
What Did Our Ancestors Eat?
So porphyry is a type of stone too? My English improved by one word today then. :) I saw the words Greek and Roman on the page I found the pic, and made obviously made my own assumptions about who...
While plant based food is very common in this area East Africa, this link (don't go there if you want to avoid looking at dead mice) describes that "hunting and eating of mice is very deeply...
Have any of you read Food In The Ancient World by John Wilkins and Shaun Hill?
I looked at the book on Google Books (...
Human Evolution by Bernard Campbell
You're welcome!
I'm sure there will be lots of discussions about the significance of Ida - including discussions about whether Ida is "the missing ink", how many missing links there are, and of...
The problem with wanting to eating what our ancestors ate is of course that one could pick any preferred segment of the evolution that lead to development of humans as we look, live and behave today,...
Article: Evolution of the Human Diet
A short excerpt:
It is often argued by meat-eating humans in defence of their diet that modern man is evolved from pre-historic men that ate meat as a major...
Man's early hunting role in doubt
09:20 06 January 2003 by Bob Holmes
A small excerpt:
More here.
New book further supports controversial theory of 'Man the Hunted'
About Donna Hart
From http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york-part-3/ :
Exactly.
The original post in this thread was from a Christian organization, and here's something I found on jewishveg.com:
In a way, it makes sense to assume that the most suitable diet for humans is the diet that makes us perform best.
When looking back in history, where our ancestors had to survive under much more...
Are Humans Meant to be Omnivores?
An excerpt:
Here's another, short quote for people who assume that all humans ancestors always have been eating meat, and that humans only recently has started to explore living on a meat free diet):
"I skate...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/ax/metacontent_fs.html?interpret_f4_fs
More here: Hunger and Fear
I just just googled East African diet a bit. The Eastern part of Africa is an area where many researchers seem to agree that is where the first human ancestors were located*.
What I found, and...
I have the book now, but haven't had time to read it yet. Meanwhile, here's an article from Washington University/Neil Schoenherr:
'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
By Neil...
I have The Complete World of Human Evolution and Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins - and have just ordered Man The Hunted.
There are some comments/reviews/discussion about Man The Hunted...
I've spent some time trying to find some good books about human evolution. It's not easy.
There's a book called The Dawn of Human Evolution, which suggests that the earliest stone tool makers used...
The Diet of Early Humans
Vegetarianism and Archaeology
Derek Wall examines the "mighty hunter" myth of human ancestry
(from The Vegetarian, September/October 1988, published by The Vegetarian...
Were early humans vegetarian?
Meat eating & human evolution: a review of research into diet and evolution
(From www.veg.ca)