Re: meat 'fuel of human evolution'

The primates mostly depend on fruit. The Bonobo have been seen to
carry sharp bone shards of large herbivores that they use to dig
tubers in the soft alleuvial soil in their habitat south of the Congo.
The ground is so permeable that there are no springs, & water merely
seeps thru the duff twards the river.

But when a Bonobo eats a tuber, he gets a drink, as well as a high
carb charge. Of course, the dirt from eating tubers affected the
teeth, so that the Bonobo have the thickest dentine of all the
primates. Except one: hominids. You dont need it if you are primarily
a meat eater.

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