A quotation from Katherine Milton, of the Department of Environmental
Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley,
California, in

a chapter called "Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Wild Foods Signal Relief from
Diseases of Affluence" in
HUMAN DIET, ITS ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION, edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark
F. Teaford. Westport, Connecticut, Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

Page 114:

"Comparative and experimental data show that modern humans, common
chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans show close similarity in most
features of gut anatomy as well as pattern of digestive kinetics
(Milton, 1986, 1987; Milton and Demment, 1988; Caton, 1997; Milton,
1999a,b). Such striking similarities support the view that human
nutritional requirements, gut anatomy, and physiology were little
affected by the hunter-gatherer phase of human existence."

Todd Moody
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