> -Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:46:53 +1300 > From: Lynton Blair <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Reasons for paleodiet > > 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? > > 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, ...). > > 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. > > 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