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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