Todd Moody wrote: It's not clear that
> neoteny has any implications for diet.  I think it is your view
> that, in the context of dogs and wolves for example, it doesn't.
>


A pack consisting of humans and dogs would be able to efficiently
dispatch animals that would be very difficult to kill for segregated
packs to kill.  Many of these animals went into extintion soon after
these two species entered into a symbiotic relationship as expressed in
the new tools made practical by this arrangement.  These extintions also
followed man and his dogs into the New World at a much later date.

Large animals who live in near-artic conditions found on temperate
grasslands store vast amounts of fat for the long winter months.  To
protect this precious store, they have very good defense mechanisms. The
mixed human/dog pack could overcome this protection and thus have greater
ammounts of fatty meat in the diet.  Indeed the Pleistocene extintions
seem to follow the fat trail!  Imagine the fat a wooly mammoth or giant
ground sloth would provide.

Find the articles about dog/wolf DNA to see the similarity of results and
the differences in conclusions as to lineage.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin:A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"
http://www.sofdesign.com/neander