I would say that the phrase "primarily omnivorous" means that most are
omnivorous, but there may be some surviving on vegetation only, and some
surviving on meat only.

P
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From: "Marilyn Harris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Naked with a .. stick and fire?


> Hi Craig;
>
> At 08:10 AM 12/1/01 -0500, Craig Smith wrote:
> >No, they indicate a primarily *omnivorous* physiology.   Just because we
> >can process vegetables effectively doesn't mean our physiology is
designed
> >to live off them as its only food source.
>
> I didn't say "only" food source - I said "primarily" which obviously is
not
> an exclusive term, and I also mentioned we could eat animal/insect life.
>
> If aliens from outer space looked at us physiologically they would assume
> that we ate vegetation - we definitely have the hardware to do so. They
> could also (correctly) guess that we probably could eat meat as well (meat
> being much easier to digest).
>
> Also since "omnivorous" covers both (all) types of eating, how can you
> ascribe the word "primarily" to the term? Is there some other
less-frequent,
> secondary way of eating that we don't know about? :-)
>
> Marilyn
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