Re: More fake science: Your Vegan ancestors

On 1/17/2025 10:36 PM, JTEM wrote:

 This is politics, not science:
   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/early-human-ancestors-didnt-eat- meat?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_share
 We know our ancestors ate meat and seafood.
 Period.
 We have the evidence going back millions of years.
 Pan even eats meat, though nowhere near as often...
   

There is no reason to believe that Australopithecus ate any more meat than chimps.  The data indicate that this is the case.  It doesn't claim that they did not eat meat.
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Lüdecke notes that the findings don’t mean A. africanus couldn’t have occasionally exploited a meaty meal. The results also don’t rule out the primates eating lots of termites — a reliable, high-energy food — since they contain relatively less of the form of nitrogen elevated in mammalian meat.
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The picture is of a robust Australopithecine that had huge teeth for processing vegetation.  They seemed to be equiped to process vegetation that even chimps could not eat.  Leakey called A. robustus nutcracker man back in the 1960's.
Ron Okimoto
Ron Okimoto