Without the extra fatty acids from meat, our brains wouldn't have grown to the size they are now. Besides Persistence Hunting is the new theory on how early man got their meat. They literally ran their prey to exhaustion. You see, humans have one key up over the animal kingdom, we can sweat, and therefor, expel excess heat. A dog pants because they cannot get rid of the heat any other way. The same as an antelope, horse, deer, you just have to keep it up. The reason the ancient Greeks used runners in some instances instead of horses is because if their aren't horses staged in points every couple of miles, a horse could become slower than an experienced human running over a longer distance...probably why the victory of the Battle of Marathon used a runner.

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The evidence even points to them processing Oats for a grain based meal

Oh, please tell me how they did this before forming cities. Even the Native Americans didn't do this, and I'd say they are an excellent example on how "hunter/gather" people lived before that. They didn't pack oats, they packed pemmican.

I think you are grasping at theology. There is no evidence, anatomy, or otherwise, that proves early human ate oats, grains, grass, nor leaves.

And no one wants to answer my questions on anatomy...

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Posted on 1/12/17 at 10:21 pm to Junky

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Yes, because when I'm lost in the woods, the last thing I am doing is trying my luck at gathering leaves to eat....very filling.

Yes, because early man was just lost in the woods. Fact is it was difficult to kill or find meat. So they ate berries, fruits, leaves, bark, etc. most of the time.

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Without the extra fatty acids from meat, our brains wouldn't have grown to the size they are now.

Standard Paleo propaganda. Eating calorie dense meat more likely freed up carb calories to fuel the brain. Cooking food played an even more importanat roll by making food quickly digestable. LINK

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Oh, please tell me how they did this before forming cities.

Some of the oldest food making tools found are oat mills. LINK

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But now evidence has emerged that people enjoyed their carbs even during the Paleolithic era, a period also known as the Old Stone Age that stretched from roughly 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago. A new analysis of a Paleolithic pestle shows it was dusted with oat starch, suggesting that ancient humans were grinding oats into flour and, presumably, dining on oatcakes or some other oat-based delicacy.

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The idea that prehistoric people didn’t eat grain “is just wrong. It’s misinformed,” says Huw Barton of Britain’s University of Leicester, who studies ancient starch grains. “People ate what they could get their hands on. Eating is surviving.”