What Did Prehistoric Humans Actually Eat?
Ancient humans existed thousands of years ago, and they were very different than humans today! What did they eat? Read More: Early hominids ate just about ...
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There’s a lot of people out there claiming to know the best diet, based on what our ancestors ate. But how do we separate the hogwash from the history? Hey guys, Julia here for DNews. There are some people who like to make inferences on how we should live based on some “ideal” past. Take a recent trendy diet. The basic tenets of the paleo diet come from a few current hunter-gather societies, suggesting we should eat more like we did before the invention of agriculture. We want an easy answer for how we should live, or more specifically eat, but the real story is so much more complex. So what does evidence say ancient humans ate? From looking at teeth, skull fragments, environmental conditions, and even computer models, our ancestors lived in a wide range of habitats, leading to a vari...
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There’s a lot of people out there claiming to know the best diet, based on what our ancestors ate. But how do we separate the hogwash from the history? Hey guys, Julia here for DNews. There are some people who like to make inferences on how we should live based on some “ideal” past. Take a recent trendy diet. The basic tenets of the paleo diet come from a few current hunter-gather societies, suggesting we should eat more like we did before the invention of agriculture. We want an easy answer for how we should live, or more specifically eat, but the real story is so much more complex. So what does evidence say ancient humans ate? From looking at teeth, skull fragments, environmental conditions, and even computer models, our ancestors lived in a wide range of habitats, leading to a vari...
