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You mean a few million years of evolution couldn't completely redesign our digestive system? Weak bruh.
We haven't been eating like this for a few million years, humans mostly subsisted off of whatever they could get. Eating red meat every day, or even every week, is very modern.
Fair, but our guts have already evolved to not being able to eat rotten meat. They’re apples and oranges, but still a relevant point.
Dietary evolution happens really fast, comparatively speaking.
Cool story.
Wierdo.
Homo primates (archaic humans like Homo Erectus) have been hunting prolifically for about 2 million years. That’s part of what makes us Homo; the large calorie surplus from big game hunting allowed our brains to grow larger.
afaik it's inconclusive, and just as likely that big game was rare and supplemented by many other forms of hunting and gathering. It's a lot easier to spear a fish or steal some eggs than to spend a whole day tracking down an elk until it collapsed from exhaustion.
More modern research does not suggest this made up most of the consumption for humans even before agriculture. For instance,
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z
Buh buh buh joe rogan told me otherwise!!!! \s \s \s
Go on 🤭
Too bad humans are only like 200,000 years old.
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