Re: More fake science: Your Vegan ancestors

On 1/18/25 10:13 AM, RonO wrote:

There is no reason to believe that Australopithecus ate any more meat than chimps.

Well it's six of one/half dozen of the other.
But there's also a very good argument to be made that we are
not descended from Australopithecus. It was for a very long
time dismissed as an evolutionary "Cousin."

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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.

Well many claim to see both a gracile & robust Australopithecus, with
a diet separating the two. But there is an argument that
Australopithecus isn't even an ancestor. It's one of the VERY frequent
criticisms of paleo anthropology where anything they pluck out of the
ground is dubbed an ancestor then shoehorned into some savanna idiocy.
These veggy-lusting-ancestor kick is pure politics, and nothing more.
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