Robert Kesterson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:01:08 -0500, william <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> 
>> This should not be a popularity contest. A diet should be what
>> people ate, not what someone claimed that they ate.
> 
> That's all we have for paleolithic -- there are no survivors or 
> eyewitnesses, so all we have is a best guess based on secondary
> evidence.
> 

IIRC analysis of bones showed that paleoman ate meat. Is this just a rumour?



>> The  assumption seems to be that paleolithic man was as stupid as 
>> neolithic.
> 
> I see no reason to believe otherwise.  If our bodies haven't had time
> to adapt to the post-paleo world, then neither have our brains.
> 


Oh but they did adapt; they shrank.

William