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> -Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:46:53 +1300
> From: Lynton Blair <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Reasons for paleodiet
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> Francis Orlando wrote:
> > - Humans do not seem to be efficient meat eaters without tools.
> > Is the thesis that tools make us omnivores and that this is an
> > adaptive and evolutionary-driven requirement now?
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> People seem to have been eating meat using tools for at least 2 million
> years ( ie homo erectus or similar). This from a site in Europe,dating
> a skull in an area with piles of mammal bones (rhino, hippo, ...).
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> My take is that prior to tools it would have been a tough ask to bring
> down a rhino or hippo!!! However, scavenging on dead or dying animals
> would have been possible.
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> Lynton
Hi Lynton,
I guess I'm in style again, now I eat my raw chicken and meat without
tools--like an early scavenger-- tear it off the
bone with my teeth. Am I'm ever an efficient meat eater now--and so
yummy
and healthy for my body and brain it is.
Best,
Ellie
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