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Originally Posted by rmay635703
In any event our prehistoric ancestors lived on mainly meat because vegitable matter was hard to get in any QTY.
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It's hardly that cut-and-dried, because when it comes down to it,
we simply don't know what portion of prehistoric humans' diet was made up of meat and how much was plant matter. We know they ate meat, and that it formed a significant ("sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy") portion of their diet, but
we also know that diet varied by geographical region. We cannot say they ate "mainly meat", because there is no evidence to support this outside of limited populations. And there is certainly no evidence to support the assertion that humans should eat
exclusively meat (and much evidence to the contrary), the featured family's portrait notwithstanding. George Burns smoked like a chimney and lived to be 100, but it doesn't mean we should all light up for our health.