Dean Esmay wrote on 6/22:

>As for humans and meat: the average intake of all hunter/gatherers
>worldwide shows that on average they get slightly more than half their
>daily calories from meats.  The African !Kung are on one end of the
>spectrum with only about a third of their intake as animals, however, they
>live near an enormous mongogo nut forest and so get most of their calories
>from that, with meat making up only about a third of the total diet.  On
>the other end of the spectrum are the Inuit, who eat a nearly 100% meat
>diet.

I don't think it's quite correct that the !Kung represent one end of the
spectrum. Eaton et al list higher Plant:Animal ratios for both Hadza of
Tanzania (80:20) and extreme desert Australian aborigines (90:10) in "The
Paleolithic Prescription/A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design for
Living."

Gary