XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.food.veg   
   From: anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net   
      
   (NPR) - Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves,   
   maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added   
   things like underground tubers, roots and berries.   
      
   It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you   
   needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all.   
   But having a big gut has its drawbacks.   
      
   "You can't have a large brain and big guts at the same time,"   
   explains Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist and director of the   
   Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York City, which funds research on   
   evolution. Digestion, she says, was the energy-hog of our primate   
   ancestor's body. The brain was the poor stepsister who got the   
   leftovers.   
      
   Until, that is, we discovered meat...   
      
   Continued: http://sn.im/EatMeat   
      
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