Yes I read it. I intended to respond to the HN subject line claiming Homo Erectus was “basically a carnivore.” The Inuit diet provides an exception that appear

Yes I read it. I intended to respond to the HN subject line claiming Homo Erectus was “basically a carnivore.” The Inuit diet provides an exception that appears to support the idea that humans are carnivores. However the Inuit are modern humans dating from the Holocene. They migrated to the Arctic and adapted to their diet out of necessity as the climate changed. The Inuit diet includes some berries, tubers, and seaweed. “Carnivore” has a specific meaning and human beings don’t fit. We are omnivorous. When meat is available we tend to prefer eating meat, but we don’t exclusively eat meat like cats do. We can digest a lot of foods, but not leaves and grass like chimps and gorillas can (at least not very efficiently).