Elainie Gagne wrote:

 >Tattersall states that it is virtually certain that the bulk of the diet was
 >indeed vegetable foods (berries, fruits,seeds, tubers etc..) and he goes
on >to say that a couple of specimans is not of
 >course a great statistical sample upon which to base statements about the
 >diet of an entire species.

It all depends on where the couple of specimans were from. According to
optimal foraging theory man will go for what gives him the most food for
the effort expended. In the tropics it will be fruits, etc. In the far
north it will be mostly meat. If by the sea it will be fish.

Don.