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Rabbit starvation
- ColinWright 8y agoA paper I co-authored about the possible optimal diet of late upper paleolithic humans in the South West of France showed that the primary constraint on their diet was fat. It was a long time ago, but as I recall the prevalent meat was roe deer, and that's very lean. Solving the linear programming problem for the nutrients showed that they needed nuts to get the fat content.
- fifnir 8y agoAny chance for a link? I have a friend doing research in roe deer and she might find it interesting :) (I did try to google it but didn't manage anything)
- ColinWright 8y agoThe paper doesn't contain all the details, and the paper is only available via library loan or a scribd link. I'm checking to see what we said in the published paper about fat content, but I suspect it won't be useful. It was originally a paper presented at a symposium in Oxford in Feb 1985, and it was not well received, so we didn't pursue the details. I might be able to provide screenshots of the paper for your friend to skim, but I suspect it won't be relevant. Email me - contact details in my profile.
- fifnir 8y agoAh thanks, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you it was just to tell her something along the lines of : "Hey did you know roe-deer would be the main source of protein for early hom(inins?)" It's kinda sad how some not-so-old knowledge has essentially been lost already (as in, if it's ungooglable it's practically lost)..