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smellsfruity

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smellsfruity··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
Which part of my first comment isn’t factually correct?
smellsfruity··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
And we know that because Australian Aborigines have a written history dating back 90,000 (or whatever the number is this week) years.
smellsfruity··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
Maybe they took both.
smellsfruity··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
Why is it assumed that learning to cooking animals is a necessary hurdle?

When we’re capable of eating animals raw. And bugs and worms etc.

Whereas in order to consume a wider variety of plants, cooking and other more complex perpetrations are absolutely necessary.

smellsfruity··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
So we’re expected to believe each man is carry a basket of rapidly deteriorating fruit (and tubers).

Or a knapsack of dried fatty meat with a fairly indefinite shelf life.