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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: 'Eating to Live Longer' - ptooey!
Message-ID: <649@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 13:26:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 13:26:36 1985
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In article <172@ewj01.UUCP> lj@ewj01.UUCP (Leonard Jacobs) writes:
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>
>Was the evolutionary shift a result of meat eating (baboons and other 
>apes/monkeys do eat other animals), or a result of using fire for cooking 
>and the selection of cereal grains as a primary food?  Do we know for certain
>that homonids are a result of carnivorous habits?
>
>Perhaps this topic should go in net.evol?

	No, the evolutionary shift occured prior to the use of fire by
a about million years. And, yes it is known for certain, or at least as
certainly as we can know anything about events 3 million years ago!
The evidence include the reduction of our canines, the existance of
butchering creches with stone tools in Africa. Since most of the
differnces between Hominids and other Great Apes can be explained on
the basis of a shift from opportunistic to regular feeding on meat,
it seems fairly well established. (BTW baboons are not great apes,
and are not particularly closely related to Human ancestry. In fact
they may represent a parallel evolutionary line heading down the same
herbivore to carnivore transition we did)
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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