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Re: history questions: meat, siberian land bridge, horses in the AmericasBarry Mennen (barrym2@ix.netcom.com(Barry)11 Dec 1996 20:38:27 GMT
writes: > > >>> > Morphis@physics.niu.edu wrote: >>> > >Colleen, I challange you to find one reputable source that states >that >>> > >homo-sapians-sapians ever did not eat meat. >> >>For those coming in late, this does not refer to poor peasantry, but >to some >>(IM-not-at-all-HO) mythical time before we learned to throw rocks. I >have >>never heard anything that would indicate that any creature that could >be >>called Human was strictly vegatarian. >> >Before we learned to hunt we were.Sure this was a long time ago,and we >all ran around naked,and this is before fire.But it happened. > >>> > My history teacher,the book was called"Man though the Ages",I had >it >>> > last year,10th grade that is,in world history. >> >>> > Colleen >> >>> Ah, those history books! >>> Did you read about the great Sir Francis Drake, or >>> about Francis Drake the Pirate? >> >>So far so good... >> >The spanish hate,but to the britsh hes a hero,its how you look at >things,and how you look at things starts a debate like this.That was >overly clear. > >Colleen Tuohy > Perhaps Colleen thinks that some of the Australopiths (who were likely purely vegetarians [based on dentition], such as A.bosei) were the vegetarians in the human line; whilst they were hominids, they were not directly in our line but rather, offshoots.
It is quite likely that the nodal species that gave rise to our line
Barry Mennen
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