Regarding Linda Scott Cummings' comments on seeds in the paleolithic diet:
I offer no opinion on the matter, but I point out that Mavis' point seems
to have been that it's unlikely that wild grass seeds could have been a
-primary- food source in most of the world, since these are a seasonal item
and are just one of a wide variety of foods available to pre-agricultural
peoples.

Analysis of human coprolites would probably tell us more about this issue
than any amount of speculating.  I've been wishing for some time that we
could find someone with a background in that area, but alas all the people
with such backgrounds I've tried to reach so far have not responded to my
inquiries.

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  "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
   which is the exact opposite."          --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)