Image via WikipediaMy wife and I haven't eaten meat since the end of February, relying on an abundance of seafood for our main source of protein. But a friend just sent me the following link to a piece on National Public Radio about the diet of our earliest ancestors.
I am not going to quibble about all the points this report makes, but I will note the Neanderthals mentioned in the last sentence were easily superseded by smarter people who migrated to what is now Europe from the same region of Africa.
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Did meat makes us smarter?
I wouldn't exactly say eating meat makes you smarter. According to family lore, my ancestor Oog Oog Elson, of the Neanderthal Elsons, made himself a woolly mammoth omelet after a particularly successful hunting trip. But he forgot to remove the tusks and had to have his stomach pumped, or else I might not be here today. How smart was that?
ReplyDeleteI guess you could say that omelet became a bone -- uh, tusk -- of contention. No yolk. In those days, you had to see the egg whites of the woolly mammoth's eyes to kill him with a spear.
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