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For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else — study – The Times of Israel
Tel Aviv University researchers says Stone Age humans were apex predators, only moved to more plant-based diet 85,000 years ago
Israeli researchers studying the nutrition of Stone Age humans say the species spent some 2 million years as hyper-carnivorous apex predators that ate mostly the meat of large animals.
The study at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Portugals University of Minho, challenges views that prehistoric humans were omnivores and that their eating habits can be compared to those of modern humans, TAU said in a statement.
“Our study addresses a very great current controversy both scientific and non-scientific,”…
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