Hi Paul;

>The point being?

You had said that an extended vegetarian diet did not come about in man
until after he had developed agriculture - long after the Paleolithic era --
which I do not think is correc (see your quote below). We are nearly
completely adapted to a largely vegetarian diet and have been probably for
the last couple of million years, way before the onset of agriculture. Our
teeth, type of saliva, arrangement of our jaws and length and structure of
our colon indicate primarily a herbivorous physiology who could also feast
on carrion and small slow moving animal/insect life.

At 05:33 PM 11/27/01 -0500, Paul Getty wrote:
>I would assume that the first extended vegetarian diet did not come about in
>early man until he had developed extensive agriculture, long after the Paleo
>stage of history.

For an excellent article read;

http://www.animalvoices.org/vegetarian.htm

Marilyn