Jean-Claude wrote:
>If the deer survive  the TB  and the human pressures on his environment
>there is no reason why i will not survive it ever.

But are humans really ready to eat much of the flesh of big
aninals? Potentially infected with deseases that tend to infect
big (and older) animals like the human animal?

Humans are able only since the inventions of long range and strong
weapons to kill-and-eat big animals.
How would a gorilla or a australopithecus afarensis catch and kill
a gnu or a gazelle?

Before 2 mio years ago, primates evolved as fuit eaters (some insects
included) for about 300*hundred-thousand years.
Humans don't have such a strong stomach acidity as  "real"
predators (as big cats for example), which could kill off parasites
and infections (from the food).
Big meat intakes from Cro Magnon humans' anchestors can only
be shure for the 0.2 hundred-thousand years from 30000 to 4600 b.c.
and only in northern areas.
Not much of a adaption time.

The 20*hundred thousands of years before that (after ending the
frugivore time) occured probably in african forest and savanne zones.
Even the time table in Ward Nicholsons famous interview
just states "more" meat intake for this time, but no percentages.
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1c.shtml#timeline
start

And if raw big game meat constitutes a health or death danger
how long could a homo xyz-sis consume significant amounts before
a deadly infection? They all didn't get much older than 40
before the Cro Magnon, Jared Diamond writes.

All this time most probably fire was there to help killing off
parasites in the meat. Fire may be our adaption technique
for eating more probable infected meats. Stomach acidity is not.

I'd expect that small animals in the wild (rabbit, rat) will
have less danger to bear infections than old zebras.
Towards smaller animals also tends the IMO excellent arcicle at
http://www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_meat.htm

>The 4th is that among all the potential life frightening factors, the
>probality to die from an infectious disease is rather low.
>There is  so many
>other health hazards that i might prefer to focus on.
Thanks to our conservation and anti-infectioun techniques.
To me, cars have been the the biggest threat as one
rammed me and I escaped death.
Fortunately I'm not exposed to the similar dangers from rhinos
or buffalos and I think my anchestors may have thought equal.

regards
Amadeus S.

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