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@dave
It's funny how wrong she is. It seems that the further we investigate, the clearer it becomes we were definitely a lot more carnivorous that your average ape. It's only when we started doing agriculture (which is a lot more recent in our history) that we became more plant based. I mean, we helped bring mammoths to extinction for crying out loud, what do you think those are made of?
@alyx@gameliberty.club @dave@gleasonator.com but they said your recent ancestors
Funny, I forgot about that when I was reading alyx’s post.
Although, given that he’s holding a fake hunting spear, he’s clearly talking about the hunter-gatherer diet, not the agrarian one from the last 10,000 years or so.
@dave@gleasonator.com ya pretty sure the retweeter was just using that as an opportunity for evangelization
More carnivorous than your average ape? I guess, but most apes aren’t carnivorous, and we share most of our DNA with these apes that mostly eat plants and do just fine.
For pre-historic humans, there was a legitimate hunting niche, because by evolving to favor more slow-twitch muscle fibers, we could keep up a hunt for hours, whereas our prey with their fast-twitch fibers could outrun us initially, but would eventually collapse of exhaustion as the hunt continued. So while we had a limited population, this strategy worked.
But given that we ran the mammoth into extinction when there were maybe a few million humans on the planet, it’s clear that this strategy can’t scale. And given that we’re closely related to apes which mostly aren’t carnivorous, it’s also clear that we should be able to adapt to a plant-heavy diet.
If the fatties that follow this guy’s diet feel better for it, it’s because they’re cutting out processed junk food and losing weight from eating fewer calories, not because humans need to be on a paleo-esque diet to be heatlhy.