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Prior to agriculture human beings got the vast vast majority of their calories from meat. We followed a carnivore diet as a species for about 200,000 years unt
by jononomo 3y ago
Prior to agriculture human beings got the vast vast majority of their calories from meat. We followed a carnivore diet as a species for about 200,000 years until basically yesterday.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThis isn’t true. When you look at modern hunter gatherers who don’t practice agriculture today, the bulk of the calories still come from plants they forage rather than meat.
- jononomo 3y agoThat's because we hunted all the megafauna to extinction during the Pleistocene. Modern hunter gatherers live in the modern world.
- ianburrell 3y agoThe megafauna extinction was in the Americas. Human coexist with megafauna in Africa: elephant, giraffe, hippo, rhino. Megafauna don't make much of diet of African hunter-gatherers cause they are a lot of work to hunt. They hunt smaller game. Gathering is much easier and safer.
- jononomo 3y agoElephants are easy to hunt — they turn toward you and easily fall into disguised holes. They’re now protected by governments, however.