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So, I googled for grass eating apes and found this: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128106 https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128106
by jensen123 11y ago
So, I googled for grass eating apes and found this:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128106 https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128106
Is this what you were thinking about?
The evidence seems rather sketchy, though. From the article:
"If early humans ate grass-eating insects or large grazing animals like zebras, wildebeest and buffalo, it also would appear they ate C4 grasses.
If they ate fish that ate algae, it would give a false appearance of grass-eating because of the way algae takes up carbonate from water, Cerling says.
If they ate small antelope and rhinos that browsed on C3 leaves, it would appear they ate C3 trees-shrubs."
Seems more likely that they ate the animals, though. I mean, otherwise, shouldn't our teeth have been different by now?
- Joof 11y agoSorry for not finding a name, but there's an early hominid (divergent from us, but not an ancestor) that ate C4 grasses and had the jaw shape for it. They are now extinct. Point being that we can't extrapolate from other species (apes) even if we share an ancestor. Early humans were probably mostly scavengers anyway until fairly close to the agricultural period. Its unlikely they ate much meat.