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>Most people have small or even non existent canines. Not much use for the jobs real carnivores need them for And smaller jaws generations by generations... I
by inawarminister 7y ago
>Most people have small or even non existent canines. Not much use for the jobs real carnivores need them for
And smaller jaws generations by generations... I believe anthropology concluded this adaptation was caused by cooking. Certainly, gorillas who are almost obligate herbivores have proportionally bigger fangs than us.
Incidentally, human guts don't ferment plants at all, so I'd argue we are closer to the carnivore half of the omnivore spectrum.
Or perhaps we outsource the fermentation to our tools and storages, which is actually a valid animal feeding tactics..
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- marci 7y agoIncidentally, humans don't need meat, so I'd argue we are closer to the frugi/graminivore half of the omnivore spectrum, like chimpanzees, our closest relatives.