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Quote by: ShOuLdEr I like to think "natural" would be what we would be forced to eat without the things we have. Humans started making tools a long time ago i know but what i mean is just your hands and your feet and your mouth. What would you eat then? meat would be hard to come by and complicated to eat because we do not have sharp teeth...we are not very fast so food would be hard to catch.....we have little natural camoflauge as well so it would be hard to suprise prey. We would be reduced to bugs and vegatables and maybe some scavenge because i do think we would be great scavengers. |
On meat...
We were eating meat before we became Homo Sapiens, in fact it was the change from a vegetarian diet to an omniverous one that took us from ostrolopithicus (spelling?).
Looking at teeth, no we do not have the rows of canines that carnivores do to tear meat apart, but we do have a set of canines, which would suggest we are adapted to eat meat, just not as the staple of our diet. Nor do we have almost totally flattened teeth as herbivores do, which would suggest we are not natural vegetarians.
Our development of colour vision also shows how we should be predmoninantly fruit eaters, which we developed so as to better choose safe fruits to eat.