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WE weren't designed to eat meat
ChavesChaves:
A favored argument of the moron my sibling married is that the human body was not designed to eat meat.
So I guess the moral of the story is:
Don't give a herbivore a sharp rock.
--- Quote ---200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen
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Their research is providing new clues about how, where and when our communal habits of butchering meat developed, and they're changing the way anthropologists, zoologists and archaeologists think about our evolutionary development, economics and social behaviors through the millennia.
Presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, new finds unearthed at Qesem Cave in Israel suggest that during the late Lower Paleolithic period (between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago), people hunted and shared meat differently than they did in later times. Instead of a prey's carcass being prepared by just one or two persons resulting in clear and repeated cutting marks — the forefathers of the modern butcher — cut marks on ancient animal bones suggest something else.
Different rules of the game
"The cut marks we are finding are both more abundant and more randomly oriented than those observed in later times, such as the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods," says Prof. Avi Gopher of TAU's Department of Archaeology. "What this could mean is that either one person from the clan butchered the group's meat in a few episodes over time, or multiple persons hacked away at it in tandem," he interprets. This finding provides clues as to social organization and structures in these early groups of hunters and gatherers, he adds.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091014111547.htm
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m0du1e1:
Interesting article.
All the evidence I have seen points to the conclusion that humans are best suited to an omnivorous diet.
Our teeth, our digestive systems, and our behavior are the indicators that place us in the category of omnivores.
Lucy Glitters:
Perhaps not designed for highly processed meat, the likes of which we eat today.
The "we're not omnivores" argument is old, akin to the flat earth shenanigans.
MsInformed:
:lol: The difference being that the belief the earth was flat was based on observable evidence at the time and denial of the reality we have always been omnivores here and now.
AlbertaEMT:
Well, although I don't exactly subscribe to the theory of evolution, I have to agree that we were designed/evolved (your choice) to be omniverous.
The fact that 8 of the adult teeth we have are bicuspids is a big clue. These are teeth that are designed to cut meat. Molars are desgined to process vegetables. If you compare the teeth of a carnivore to our canines and bicuspids, I think you will find some astounding similarities.
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