Science
Our Stone Age Ancestors Were Apex Predators – Interesting Engineering
It turns out that humans switched to feeding on vegetables only after animals started becoming extinct towards the end of the stone age.
There’s an ongoing debate among today’s humans about whether eating meat is ethically and/or environmentally right or not. A debate that would’ve made our stone-age ancestors crack up.
A new study from Tel Aviv University reconstructed the nutrition of stone-age humans to analyze whether they were specialized carnivores or generalist omnivores. The results show that humans were apex predators for about two million years, only switching to feeding on vegetables after animals started becoming extinct…
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