On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:46:30 -0500, Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello Ward,

thanks for your thoughtful and detailed response to our discussion.

I must say that I derived much information, especially the timeline
and the anchestors line, from *your* net-published interview.
(I think all here know about it at:
 http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1a.shtml    )

It's just that i'm taking a little different conclusions on the known
facts, and maybe a little different assumptions in the areas where
nothing is known for shure.

I didn't even come to the point yet, what to conclude, from having
(mainly) frugivore or herbivore
anchestors 10 or 5 mio years back, because
the mere fact has been questioned up to now.

My only conclusion of the presented data (and theories) was, that
as a former plant eater who didn't give up plant eating, we
still ought to have the capabilities to get our essentials from plants
only.

Maybe the add-on of meat over a long time led to some relyment of our
organism on substances that are easly obtained from meat, and
less easy from plants.

You did mention several examples for that.
Iron, Zink, taurin, long chain fatty acids,
Todd mentioned protein, I add vitamin b12.

I think each of them should be considered thoroughly
(and not in believe systems) before we were able to conclude
how meat eating was advatageous over plant eating in paleolithic times.
And then of course relate that (existing) advantages
to the drawbacks of practicable meat-containing diets in the present.