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Todd Moody wrote:
>But your question assumes that freshly killed buffalo was pretty much
>always on hand and that, too, is a questionable assumption. What do we
>actually know about the daily yield of paleolithic hunters, in relation
>to the needs of the clan? The answer is: very little. Your assumption
>that these people wouldn't even recognize tubers and root vegetables as
>food, and wouldn't know how to prepare them to make them more palatable
>assumes that they were very stupid indeed, while at the same time we
>think nothing of extolling their intelligence from tracking, killing,
>butchering, and completely utilizing prey animals.
And this article in Beyond Veg. web site says Paleo brains were larger
than ours:
http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp-anat/comp-anat-4b.shtml#dietary
From what I understand, brain size directly relates to intelligence, at
least among contemporary humans.
John B
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