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I'm pretty skeptical, but the reason I'm willing to give the notion a little traction is because no other primate eats grains - and even humans didn't until the
by ryandvm 16y ago
I'm pretty skeptical, but the reason I'm willing to give the notion a little traction is because no other primate eats grains - and even humans didn't until the dawn of agriculture.
Of course a lot of things humans do are completely unnatural: alcohol, dairy, fish, tobacco, complete lack of physical activity, etc.
I'm far from convinced, but that's the point of the experiment. I'll see how this thing shakes out in 30 days...
- hugh3 16y agoHow is fish unnatural? Fish are a huge part of the diet of many pre-agricultural cultures... pretty much any that live where there are fish, in fact.
- ryandvm 16y agoGood point. I was attempting to point out activities humans partake in that are more recent than evolutionary mechanisms would have had time to filter out. Though I suppose we've been clubbing and trapping fish for a good while longer than we've had agriculture.
- hugh3 16y agoClub 'em, trap 'em, spear 'em (spears are at least 300,000 years old) or even grab 'em with your hands (easier if you live a million years ago before human fishing has depleted fish stocks). I tried to find out whether chimps eat fish... apparently they've never been observed to do so, but baboons do.