From: Arthur McConnachie
>Thus, I think today's HGs are poor examples of what we should be eating.

You're right!  The prevelant enviroment of the homo sapien form of hominid,
the Pleistocene Steppe-tundra, no longer exists.  The woody plants that
predominate today were inhibited in their growth by both lower CO2 levels
and the resulting Ice Age.  Pollen counts from this era indicate that
grasses were a far greater part of the vegetable world than they are today.
On the steppe-tundra few other plants could survive.

Although homo sapiens being Primates could not eat this grass, they could
exploit the animals who did.  These animals were known as the Pleistocene
Megafauna and existed in far greater numbers than all of our domestic and
wild animals alive today.  Imagine the Buffalo herds of the old American
west.  Now multiply their population by four and their individual size by
two.  Then add several other species of much larger size in similar numbers.
This was indeed the "happy hunting ground" of the American Dreamtime.

Homo sapiens would have avoided the less productive tropical regions.  This
is evidenced by our lack of immunities to tropical diseases - immunities
found in tropical Primates.  In tropical forrests humans often adapt to less
available food by becoming smaller (people formerly known as pgymies).

In short, during the Pleistocene, the diet of Man would have been closer to
the Inuit than the Bushman.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com