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Calling it a berry here or there seems to be downplaying ancient hominid diets. We lost the ability to produce our own vitamin C quite early on due to our subsi
by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Calling it a berry here or there seems to be downplaying ancient hominid diets. We lost the ability to produce our own vitamin C quite early on due to our subsistance on fruits, nuts, and vegetables foraged from the surrounding land. Hunting is a high-stakes calorie game, which foraging supports.
- samatman 4y agoAnyone eating a diet mainly of meat they have hunted will have more than enough vitamins from the meat. Particularly the organs, particularly the liver. The entire old-world primate order lost vitamin C synthesis, and that common ancestor was arboreal and a foot tall. Our genus has primarily subsisted on hunted meat for the entire period between adopting bipedalism and getting forced into growing crops (if you like this stuff, Against The Grain is a great read).