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Date: | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:01:10 -0500 |
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>But it is a rather small the place on the earth
>where our genes have formed.
>(and spread therefrom as the successfull Cro Magnon human).
>And there - in Africa - was a tropical rainforest for many millions
>of years, our anchestors were fruitarians (with little insects),
>and vegetarian nutrition *is* possible there year-round,
>as gorillas show.
I think that considering gorillas as our "ancestors" is not useful, because
they are biologically very different from humans. In particular, their
digestive system is quite different from ours: it has abilities to get
nutrients out of plant matter, in ways that humans can't.
A better way to look at our real ancestors would be to study the small
groups of hunter-gatherers, who still live and eat today the way they did
millions of years ago. I believe that, among these cultures, there are
*no* vegetarians: they all eat at least a little meat, and some live
almost entirely on animal foods.
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