On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:35:18 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Philip Thrift wrote: >> It seems to me that some recent stories are >> revising upwards the total % of meat in these diets; eg: >> >> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/120178997v1 > >Yes, it's pretty clear that recent Neanderthal studies suggest >that they were, as the authors say, "top-level carnivores." The >jury is still out on whether Neanderthals were ancestral to us, >however, and at the moment the evidence tends to the negative. >In short, we don't know how relevant the Neanderthal case is. It seems reasonable to me that for paleo man (Neanderthal or not) that their *primary motivation* was to seek out *meat* for food, and when hunting provided this opportunity, it was exploited -- after all, they didn't have a bunch of nutrition "studies" telling them to eat a "balanced diet" :-). Philip Thrift "Paleofitness" http://www.paleofitness.com