Re: meat 'fuel of human evolution'

On Sep 15, 2:25 pm, Day Brown <daybr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The primates mostly depend on fruit.

What primates, could you be more specific?


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.

Kofola River, Bokela River, Luo River, Congo River, and lots of swamps
also.


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.

Do you have a citation for that conclusion?

Except one: hominids.

Since not all hominids are the same, which hominids are you talking
about?

You dont need it if you are primarily
a meat eater.

You do not need C4 teeth if you are primarily a C3 fruit eater.

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/december/hominids.htm


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