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From: docile delinquent (cache-dtc-ad09.proxy.aol.com)
In Reply to: Are humans carnivorous ? posted by Kcal on October 21, 2004 at 6:10 pm:
no - when studying human biology and physiology you cant look simply at completely developed hunter gatherer and agri-based societies. these societies didnt just appear with the first human. they took quite a while to flourish. if you look at pre civilized human cultures and proto humans you will see that we have always been opportunistic scavengers. our competition has always been with scavenger animals. hunting takes too much energy for us to have eaten meat solely. our metabolisms are too high to go what might be days to find food. so - we ate whatever we could including berries and leaves and we devloped strategies to break open discarded bones and eat the marrow. our bodies are very well developed to eat bone marrow. once we built tribes and a family system it became more advantageous to have some cook roots and vegetables while others hunted.
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