10 Reasons to go veggie 853But closer doesn't necessarily mean that the item we're considering is more similar. We were asked to accept that we were meat eaters because chimpanzees are meat eaters. But...
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But Bonobos that are just as closely related to us don't.
I don't know about hundreds - actually I do know: that's a mbuttive exaggeration. And they're not monkeys; we're not monkeys either.
I don't know where you get your 'well-documented' from. I do know that most of what we thought we knew about them is wrong and that the reconstruction pictures that papers included in a recent story were just about as wrong as they could be.
Not true. very many more died as infants but those who survived tended to live longish lives. There is a reason that three-score and ten was given as a human life-span thousands of years ago.
Because they get food but maily because they don't die of childhood illnesses - and that's nothing to do with diet.
10 Reasons to go veggie 852Yes, some humans eat meat, others don't. Chimpanzees haven't died out, suggesting their meat eating isn't doing them any harm. 150 then. nting-Stanford-full.html OK, primates, pedant. Have a search for scientific papers about...
It does mean that you are less likely to get the cancers buttociated with a high-meat diet.
It doesn't matter in evolutionary terms as you've already pbutted on your genes - unless society evolves to give good support for infants by grandparents.
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