I don't understand your last sentence. According to the title your video was not about if it was right or wrong what we ate in the past but what'd be the best now. Now that we have cities why not go for normal blood pressure.
.. Poor innocent victims. You don’t want to be in their shoes 👈🤥. Longest living people on Earth, are vegan. PIaque forms eating animals. Plant-based/vegans don’t have pIaque ✅♥️😬🐒🐵🦧🦍👱🏼♂️👩🏽😉. Buddhist monks most of them are vegan ✅♥️💪😬😉.. rice, quinoa, beans, and lentils, and oats, fruits and herbs and spices, yeast B12 tablespoon, every day, is the key to healthiness ✅😉
So the ancestors of football players must be a cat, especially the golly. What a great explanation for natural selection. Hope we will find a mathematical equation for natural selection shortly.
How fortunate we are today to have such a variety of foods to eat. Often at any time of the year. We are wealthy beyond our ancestors’ comprehension. And I am thankful for that.
@@aserta It's an issue for sure. We no longer eat just to survive, we also eat for pleasure. This is a gift and privilege of course, but the consequences have been made clear.
I have much better teeth than our ancestors could have wished for. I'm 40 years old and thanks to science (modern dental hygiene; dentists) I have basically still perfect teeth and gum health 💟🌌☮️
@@aserta Sorry, but no. We live longer and have better general health than any generation that has ever lived unless you're comparing still-living generations. We have had a recent downturn in longevity, but that is minimal by comparison to past generations, and a combination of healthcare and recent events has driven that. Having worse teeth than poor people in certain very specific parts of history is true, but it's not "ruining our bodies" today. Living to 79 on average with fillings, crowns and dentures is hardly "ruined" compared to those dying at 30 on average with untreated but relatively minor tooth decay in the era you're fantasizing.
Got my BA in anthropology 20 years ago this month. You're doing a fantastic job laying out what we know and how our understanding continues to develop. Keep up the good work!
Academia has become and infiltrated joke of what it once was. Therefore we need to work outside of it to continue to grow our understanding of the world and everything in it. True academia is no longer found in academia.
I don't think about evolution very often, but when you see it all laid out like this, it is amazing to think the history of humanity is largely a history of what humanity eats.
Doctors and pharmacists and medical researchers think about evolution quite a lot, because a majority of modern medicine simply wouldn’t work if not for evolution and is based on our evolutionary needs. Maybe not your family doctor or emergency doctor as often because it’s not relevant to their practice, but anyone in the business of creating medication and/or inoculation has to take evolution into account to get it to work on us in predictable ways.
I feel like I need to clarify or perhaps correct a misconception here; It's not that krill are packed with more energy because they're closer to the trophic level of producers (most farm animals we eat are herbivores), it's that there are more of them to eat. Energy is lost up each trophic level, that's true, but that doesn't mean each individual oranism has less energy, but that each level can support a smaller amount of organisms because the organisms they consume use the vast majority of the energy they produce/consume simply to maintain themselves, rather than putting it all into added tissue growth. Hence, whales can survive on krill because krill are so numerous that literally tons of them can be consumed by a single whale in a short time without making a dent in krill populations.
@@ethanwasme4307 Wow...amazing insight. Do you think other species have systems internal to their bodies that are well suited for them? Would also be interested in your thoughts on plants and photosynthesis. You seem to have figured out so many complex issues. Can you put your mind to plants and photosynthesis next? Good or bad for plants?
its a decent middle ground. better than what giant panda's got going on. their digestive system is build for a mostly carnivorous diet. but 99% of their diet is tough vegetation.
I find it funny how in fact there are few animals that are exclusively herbivores and carnivores, there are already many reports of animals such as cows, horses and deers eating meat/bones, and carnivores like wolves and bears eating plants
no, humans were carnivores up until extremely recently. pH level of stomach confirms this (in range of other predators such as hyenas, lions, etc.), predator eyes, small intestines not adapted to process any plants, list goes on.
It's funny to me that even the animals we consider to be vegetarian like cows and deer will eat meat if they can get a hold of it. They're regularly known to eat baby birds or other baby animals which nest on the ground or fall to the ground from their nest. I imagine humans are much the same, evolved to eat anything that's not toxic and will stay still long enough for us to do so
Deer have been recorded killing and eating birds. Cattle in some parts of Australia actively hunt small animals. Even sloths will dine out on baby birds if they come across a nest. Animals aren't stupid enough to pass up concentrated nutrition when the opportunity arises.
Even multi generation human vegetarian cultures still derive close to or most of their nutrition from animal sources. In a recent study on Indian vegetarians, they found the get 45 to 55 percent of nutrition from dairy mostly plus eggs and some also from seafood. Making many of them "carvivores" using the most general definition (anything that gets more than 50% of nutrition from animals).😅
@WhatIsMisophonia I've got a lot of book marks but I think it was this study: Nutritional profile of Indian vegetarian diets - the Indian Migration Study (IMS). Basically if you average the dairy section to the nutritional profile of cheese, ghee, milk and or yogurt, you get something like 45 to 55 percent animal product out of a daily calorie total of about 2800.
Some of our ancestors such as paranthropus boisei ate things like roots that required a strong jawbone to chew while others like habilus were able to scavenge meat and yet others like agaster were able to hunt with a persistence predation life style. It all depends on where our ancestors broke the mold and decided on an omnivorous diet where they could easily rethink their menus. I learned a lot of this on the walking with cavemen series, so i apologize if it isn't quite up to date, but i just found it fascinating. If anyone wanted to dive in, it's a pretty good series breaking down our non-human primate ancestors onward.
I'm always sad then the episode ends. You make such great eductional content, with beautiful art and excellent story telling to help the audience visualize and immerse ourselves in the subject. ❤
It’s highly dependent on the human population. The colder the climate, the more meat. The warmer the climate, the more plants. The Inuit, the furtherest north population, eat almost exclusively marine animals. Northern Europeans eat more meat than Southern Europeans (historically; don’t know modern per capita consumption). When you get to places like Indonesia before the Europeans they were almost exclusively herbivorous, eating fruits and insects. It’s hard to grow crops in the winter or gather fruits or veggies. So, people survived by eating animals. Climate determines diet.
Within the past 20ish thousand years ago with the mass extinction of the megafauna more so but before that the majority of human populations were nomadic hunters that followed the megafauna.
@@iancanada6875 - As long as humans had access to megafauna (and maybe shellfish), they had little interest in plant foods other than seasonal ripe fruit and honey. But keep in mind that, even in equatorial regions, the wet season producing fruit and honey on average only lasts 2-3 months.
@@Althesia A diet consisting mainly of cereals and pulses easily exceeds your minimum protein requirements. As for B12 we do indeed need animal based foods. There can also be other micronutrient issues with a vegan diet but protein is really not a major concern.
@@edmondantes4338 - Requirements aside, vegans suffer in the Northern Canadian winters. Always cold, weak muscles and cramps, unable to walk any distance in wind and snow. You can only abuse your body that way if you live in a place that doesn't put demands on it just to exist.
I believe that our stomachs are far more acidic than most other carnivores. Meaning that we were more likely to carrion, just like hyenas. Fruit or Meat, no anything and anything we could find, hunt or scavenge, we were and are still very resourceful and optimistic animals. Great video. This channel is a great addition to your other channels.
I’m watching this because I enjoy learning, especially about this subject; but I highly suspect this will become a video that many teachers and professors will make a packet for to have a ‘movie day’ for the class on a Wednesday or Thursday.
I'm looking forward to telling someone that humans have the stomach acidity of carrion eaters next time someone asks if something that's been sitting out a while is still good to eat!
I just want to thank the universe for allowing food to be a thing. What a wonderful and amazing cycle of energy to be apart of. I hope I taste good to the microbes that consume my corpse.
Maybe I'm just easy to please but I absolutely love Part 4 being titled "Food for Thought". It's the clever little details that really bring everything together.
My question is.. with posibility to have sustainable amount of food.. *is Vegetarianism possible?* ~I am practicing it for abou 3 years and I am wondering if I am harming myself or not. (28M-Europian/Czechia)
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I made them so mad that they don’t show me ads anymore…I’m starting to believe I don’t exist in this reality…lol. Seriously, no ads in almost a year and it’s weird.
I like the hypothesis that are brain size grew bigger with the advent of our shoulders being able to throw objects mainly rocks. Other Apes are unable to throw like we can. So, we soon learned the damage this weapon could inflict. However throwing rocks at a lion by yourself from a distance may not be enough, but when a group of us get really good at hurling stones at lions, even they will have enough. And this maybe what brought us together and then a need for communication. It's almost impossible to get a group of chimpanzees to work together, but soon as you start working together you will need a larger brain to orchestrate. Language is the key for a larger brain. It sounds really plausible, imagine the feeling of a group of you throwing rocks at those creatures that used to hurt you, but no more. I believe orcas are next in line with brain size compared to body size and look at how they work together.
You ever seen a chimp, gorilla, orangutan, etc. put its hands on its hands and raise its elbows up? We gained this flexibility by swinging around in trees. Just because they could physically throw a spear doesn't mean they have the mind that comprehends how. Also, chimps are documented creating crude spears and stabbing smaller prey monkeys in a sort of icepick/hammerfist/javalin type grip (same form used to throw a spear). It wouldn't take a big stretch from there to make longer and heavier spears to get at prey from a longer distance, and then to find that throwing such a spear could cause damage. That being said, it's likely that hunters which could throw harder and more accurately were more successful, thereby breeding in larger amounts, so there is some credibility to humans having a better throwing arm, if slightly.
I think we got the ability to eat meat from eating insects. The majority of insects are edible to us and we can digest chitin. Insects and stachy plants are perfect for growing a big brain
Better question would be "what _didn't_ or _wouldn't_ we eat?" Humans are quintessential opportunists, and will eat whatever is available in virtually any environment they find themselves in. If there was meat, we ate meat... if there was fish, we ate fish... if there were fruits and tubers, guess what, we ate those too. Virtually anything is a potential food source for humans other than leaves... and we eat those too somehow.
Thank you so much for this. I've been so tired of people proclaiming we evolved to eat vegan diets or some raw meat diet. People have gotten human diets so twisted, and it's made teaching biological anthropology so much more difficult. This is such a good analysis.
The amount of people that improved their life with keto or low carb diets for the better also mirrors this. We need a varied diet. Also what this misses is that a millennium of farming have deprived the soil of trace elements. Ultra-processed "food" also is something even more different to the normal food processing we did in the past.
@@superfinevids However ultra processed food and seed oils use up and deprive important body functions of their vitamins and minerals even more, and cause inflammation as the body misrecognises them. So it matters what we eat. Biology is complex.
@@FirstDagger Oh I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all. If that's how I came across let me elucidate. I mean that all nutrients starts in soil, or sea. If the soil doesn't have minerals then we can't even make DNA.
@@FirstDaggerif you're concerned about the overuse of soil and nutrients you should be against cattle farming. We don't need beef and chickens are far more efficient with the land per pound of meat.
A very hard and cool though experiment is trying to bridge between an ape like animal group feasting on raw meat while forming social bonds, and me, alone in my cozy flat binging on a brownie piece with enough sugar and fat to sustain the ape like animal for a week or more.
Let me start off by explaining the three. Most herbivores and carnivores are specialists, and they are a bit more complicated than omnivores. First are carnivores, and there are three groups. There are hypercarnivore(obligate carnivores), mesocarnivore, and hypocarnivore. These animals need some amount of meat in their diet, be it their entire diet or even as little as a third of their diet. No matter the amount, meat is a necessity to survive. Herbivores do not need any meat and live off plants. There are surprisingly few obligate herbivores. Most of them just need a diet of mostly plants to survive and can survive on meat if need be. Some herbivores are even called opportunistic carnivores, meaning that they will eat meat if the opportunity presents itself. Deer, cows, elephants, hippos, horses, squirrels, and such. Then we have omnivores. Omnivores are generalists. They lack the specialist behavior of carnivores and herbivores, searching widely for food sources. Because of this, they are better able to withstand changes within their ecological niche. This is best seen in common pest species like raccoons and rodents who were able to adapt to modern society conditions as opposed to wild conditions. They thrive in our modern cities. Humans are best defined as omnivores. We are generalists and are able to, and even have, adapted to various changes to our lifestyle. Why do we not eat more meat? It's more nutritious, right? Well, yes, but only in certain circumstances under strict diets. Meat is also more full of various things that negatively affect your health and overall quality of life in high quantities. A lot of people could definitely stand to go with less meat and more plants. Why do we eat plants at all, though? Because it's what our ancestors ate. There are plenty of examples where a carnivore evolved from a herbivores species, so why not us? Whales are great examples. The ocean is a vast place and full of food. Their ancestors preferred eating plants near the shore using the water for cover, and over time, they got more adept at swimming. A higher energy requirement was added to their lifestyle, and they began eating smaller marine animals, and as they would start to take over the ocean and spread out into different niches, their diets would adapt. Orcas eating large prey, dolphins eating small prey, and blue whales taking advantage of the smallest prey. In our case, we had no pressure to change our diet. Our ancestors lived in a forest and ate plants. Some time later, our ancestors got pushed into a transitioning environment that would start to become a savanna, but there were still plenty of plants to be found, and our lifestyle didn't change much. They would have eaten the ocasional small animal or eggs because we are oportunists. Once we did become bipedal, then our diet took a larger change. Bipedalism is less energy efficient, so as the savanna started to take shape and more running was necessary, small animals became part of our diet. This led to a shift in our bodies to digest proteins. Once committed down that path, the next objective became how to obtain more of that meat protein. Our bodies would then become fully upright, and we lost our hair. This meant better, some of the best, in fact, thermoregulation in nature. We could run longer and adopt persistence hunting. Small animals at first, and then later species would take to big game with better weapons to feed larger groups and the greater energy demand. Our brains take up 20% of our daily energy after all. That's the reason a big brain is so rare in nature. It's a taxing trait that is hard to pull off, but the benefit is astounding if you can get it. Notice all of this, though, all of the talk about energy needs and hunting. Plants are much easier to get. Plants are more efficient. Not every hunt was successful, but all gathering of plants was. There is only so much meat on an animal to go around, but there is plenty of plant for all. Tooth wear patterns show that all of our ancestors, even archaic sapiens and modern humans, in early modern history ate mostly plant. Now, onto our history as humans. I know exactly what humans should be eating because it's my job. I do paleoecological reconstruction with our ancestors. I look for and identify stable isotopes to understand the diet patterns of them and other animals based on jaws, skulls, and entire skeletons. When I find stable isotopes, that tells me what the climate was like and what they were eating. I can confirm this based on tooth wear and their skeletal and jaw structure. I can also confirm by looking at today's ecosystem to see what lives there and running it by people who study that area today. One of the oldest human family tree inhabitants is Sahelanthropus tchadensis. This is also thought to be our last common ancestor with chimps, but I won't fully go into that. They had a plant based diet for the most part, and as we get later in our history, we see our ancestors become more generalist, eating small mammals, lizards, and insects. The first we see of widespread human meat eating in the archeological record is with H. habilis. Their diet was versatile and they were able to eat a range of foods, including tougher foods like leaves, woody plants, and some animal tissues, but they did not routinely consume or specialize in eating hard foods like brittle nuts, seeds, dried meat, or tubers that were harder. The animal tissues they ate would have been small ammounts of marrow and muscles. The proportions of our bodies today are a product of millions of years of evolution, and H. erectus is the one who first evolved a narrower ribcage and pelvis, shorter large intestines, and longer small intestines like we see today. The tall bodies and large brains of H. erectus individuals required a lot of energy on a regular basis to function, so eating meat and other types of protein that could be quickly digested made it possible to absorb nutrients with a shorter digestive tract, making more energy available faster. Honey and hard tubers likely would have been significant food sources for erectus as they were abundant and easy energy sources. This made the early human gut smaller, and it decreased the time it took to digest food to gain its energy. Finally, we get to H. heidelbergensis, where we first see big game hunting and meat being incorporated as a bigger part of the overall diet as they went farther north and into colder environments. Eating a considerable amount of meat is therefore relatively new to us as a species. Even when we started practicing agriculture, meat was still only a fraction of our diet. We are omnivores. That's what most primates are. We eat both plants and animals and are generally omnivores. Some, like baboons, eat mostly meat, and some like gorillas eat mostly plants, but either way, they can still eat anything and are able to survive without one or the other. If we look at our closest relatives alive today, the Panins (Chimps and Bonobos), they regularly hunt smaller animals but continue to survive on mostly plants. Even if we didn't have vast amounts of fossil evidence, genetic evidence, and even just visual and cultural evidence, looking at our relatives tells us that most of our diet should be from plants. Root, stem, leaf, and flowering vegetables. Fruits are another important part of plants, but overall vegetables should be your main plant source. Our ancestors have always eaten every part of plants. Meat and animal products are something that can be about a quarter of your diet or maybe a third at most. "Carnivore" dieters are wrong. Vegans are wrong. So-called doctors who represent each diet and recommend them are even worse. They are irresponsible.
Look at the research of Loren Cordain, Bill Schindler, Mary Ruddick, etc. Many of the conventional assumptions have been proven wrong or at least strongly challenged. Based on better evidence, a new understanding has been developing over the past half century.
This is one of those questions that inevitably will end up in a threeway trench war: Meat vs. veg vs. both. But most likely we eat whatever we feel for, be it meat, plants, or both, either from a social, religious, moral, or (in probably most cases) a financial viewpoint. In the end, the human body doesn't care, as long as it gets the energy it needs, whether it's from the supermarket or the neighbour's garbage bin.
Fire vs. meat discussion mentions fat, but it's worth thinking of fat as the solution to the question. 'Man the Fat Hunter' by Miki Ben Dor and 'The Fat of the Land' by Jessica Thompson both focus on fat for the source of our big brains. Energy from fat doesn't require fire, but provides the energy to grow a big brain, which makes fire control & creation possible.
Rice, Maise, wheat, barley globally in human timelines suggests we ate grass and grass seeds, personally I think some claims are based on that particular person's diet, our appendix seems apt for grass seeds
I don't get how some people don't get that we eat large amounts of both, as if we haven't been overwhelmingly omnivore as we evolved into modern man. Just proof that people will believe whatever they want.
@@WhatIsMisophonia The funniest thing is most "meatbros" as I like to call them probably eat a good helping of non-meat foods. BTW I do love meat personally. But we are omnivores. Not that complicated.
@@reksraven6909 I think a sort of carnivore generalist type diet would be healthy; That is to say, A variety of mostly lean meats (pasture raised and/or wild caught), plus a bit of carbs in the form of plant matter that has the highest protective attributes while being the least potentially toxic.
Interestingly brain size is only tangentially important to intelligence and our evolution. Currently we are increasing in brain size again but our brains shrunk over recent millennia. Now this doesn't mean we became less intelligent. The correlation between intelligence and brain strucutre is still not really well understood. We mostly know that brain size and surface tend to correlate with cognitive capabilities (hence the smooth brain meme. Smooth equals less surface then Wrinkly). A theory is that our brain required more energy as it grew larger and meat was the most readily available source of nutrients. In the end we are omnivores and having a balanced diet is more important than the question "Meat, or no meat?"
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If you understood how long canines have coexisted with humans then this is a well understood question. The best way to tell a domesticated dog and a wolf is dogs can digest far more starch than wolves because we fed them from our leftovers because they helped us. We ate meat which is one reason why the ate our scraps in the first place. Only young earth creationists and vegans don't get this.
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I don't understand your last sentence. According to the title your video was not about if it was right or wrong what we ate in the past but what'd be the best now. Now that we have cities why not go for normal blood pressure.
Fungi ? 🤐
Plants cause cavities, meat doesn’t.
.. Poor innocent victims. You don’t want to be in their shoes 👈🤥. Longest living people on Earth, are vegan. PIaque forms eating animals. Plant-based/vegans don’t have pIaque ✅♥️😬🐒🐵🦧🦍👱🏼♂️👩🏽😉. Buddhist monks most of them are vegan ✅♥️💪😬😉.. rice, quinoa, beans, and lentils, and oats, fruits and herbs and spices, yeast B12 tablespoon, every day, is the key to healthiness ✅😉
So the ancestors of football players must be a cat, especially the golly. What a great explanation for natural selection. Hope we will find a mathematical equation for natural selection shortly.
How fortunate we are today to have such a variety of foods to eat. Often at any time of the year. We are wealthy beyond our ancestors’ comprehension. And I am thankful for that.
Yeah, but because of it we're also ruining our bodies too. Teeth for example. There's a degradation path going from good to worse on that line.
@@aserta It's an issue for sure. We no longer eat just to survive, we also eat for pleasure. This is a gift and privilege of course, but the consequences have been made clear.
I have much better teeth than our ancestors could have wished for. I'm 40 years old and thanks to science (modern dental hygiene; dentists) I have basically still perfect teeth and gum health 💟🌌☮️
@@aserta i love the taste of teeth
@@aserta Sorry, but no. We live longer and have better general health than any generation that has ever lived unless you're comparing still-living generations. We have had a recent downturn in longevity, but that is minimal by comparison to past generations, and a combination of healthcare and recent events has driven that.
Having worse teeth than poor people in certain very specific parts of history is true, but it's not "ruining our bodies" today. Living to 79 on average with fillings, crowns and dentures is hardly "ruined" compared to those dying at 30 on average with untreated but relatively minor tooth decay in the era you're fantasizing.
Got my BA in anthropology 20 years ago this month. You're doing a fantastic job laying out what we know and how our understanding continues to develop. Keep up the good work!
Holy bnased
Any lingering nightmares of an upcoming college exam haunt you to this day? 😅
You got a useless piece of paper to remember a false narrative and now you are so PROUD of yourself. Satan wins.
Academia has become and infiltrated joke of what it once was.
Therefore we need to work outside of it to continue to grow our understanding of the world and everything in it.
True academia is no longer found in academia.
What a loser who tips on youtube
In a million years, anthropologists will be making TH-cams about how their ancestors adapted to a diet of KFC and Oreos.
lol...
Damn, I'm eating an Oreo blizzard right now lol.
You can see those changes now. Look at Paleolithic skulls, all straight teeth.
I dont think KFC or oreos have a million year stating power 😂😂😂
Your line will certainly die off due to poor health. Lol
I don't think about evolution very often, but when you see it all laid out like this, it is amazing to think the history of humanity is largely a history of what humanity eats.
Evolution is the biggest joke ever... NOTHING has ever crossed species... they were all made original by GOD. Wake up.
Same with all living things, really. Eating and sex seem to drive evolution.
Yeah I think a lot of what we are now is from our small timid ancestors just eating whatever could be found and trying not to get eaten themselves.
Doctors and pharmacists and medical researchers think about evolution quite a lot, because a majority of modern medicine simply wouldn’t work if not for evolution and is based on our evolutionary needs.
Maybe not your family doctor or emergency doctor as often because it’s not relevant to their practice, but anyone in the business of creating medication and/or inoculation has to take evolution into account to get it to work on us in predictable ways.
It is easy to fool people into beliefs like "race doesn't exist" if they don't think about evolution.
I need something at 3:00 AM to help me fall asleep, but this video is also interesting, have to come back and watch it again
I want you to know that I read this at 3:03 AM
I feel like I need to clarify or perhaps correct a misconception here; It's not that krill are packed with more energy because they're closer to the trophic level of producers (most farm animals we eat are herbivores), it's that there are more of them to eat. Energy is lost up each trophic level, that's true, but that doesn't mean each individual oranism has less energy, but that each level can support a smaller amount of organisms because the organisms they consume use the vast majority of the energy they produce/consume simply to maintain themselves, rather than putting it all into added tissue growth. Hence, whales can survive on krill because krill are so numerous that literally tons of them can be consumed by a single whale in a short time without making a dent in krill populations.
I think everybody knew that
@@jaidoncogdell7260 Blow me.
"Less biomass for each trophic level (except zooplancton)" avoid some exceptions of the numbers.
I hadda get a cup of coffee for this one
Basically, the human intestinal tract is too short for a good herbivore but too long for a good carnivore. While less than ideal we are adaptable
And some of it is likely down to cooking, no? If food is already partially broken down, there's less need for heavy digestive systems
@@ericaceous1652 cooking in my thinking increase efficiency so our digestive tracts should be perfectly suited for us
@@ethanwasme4307 Wow...amazing insight. Do you think other species have systems internal to their bodies that are well suited for them? Would also be interested in your thoughts on plants and photosynthesis. You seem to have figured out so many complex issues. Can you put your mind to plants and photosynthesis next? Good or bad for plants?
its a decent middle ground. better than what giant panda's got going on. their digestive system is build for a mostly carnivorous diet. but 99% of their diet is tough vegetation.
About the length of intestinal track; are humans have a significant shorter intestinal tract compared to other primates which doesn't cook ?
TLDR: anything we could get our grubby little opposable thumbs on
Both. I don't know why this is so hard to comprehend. Our ancestors were omnivores, our closest living relatives are omnivores, we're omnivores.
I find it funny how in fact there are few animals that are exclusively herbivores and carnivores, there are already many reports of animals such as cows, horses and deers eating meat/bones, and carnivores like wolves and bears eating plants
@@MrPuncher I think they call things like snakes and sharks 'macro carnivores' because they exclusively eat meat, which is apparently pretty rare.
Thank you
@@girlbuu9403 I've never heard that term before, but I have heard the term 'obligate carnivore'
no, humans were carnivores up until extremely recently. pH level of stomach confirms this (in range of other predators such as hyenas, lions, etc.), predator eyes, small intestines not adapted to process any plants, list goes on.
Just wanted you to know that I listened to this while awake.
Me too, for about 5 mins before falling asleep
Lmfao
Me too on 2x speed
I've tried 2X but failed so now I've moved this to 'watch later' so wish me luck for next time.
I feel attacked
It's funny to me that even the animals we consider to be vegetarian like cows and deer will eat meat if they can get a hold of it. They're regularly known to eat baby birds or other baby animals which nest on the ground or fall to the ground from their nest. I imagine humans are much the same, evolved to eat anything that's not toxic and will stay still long enough for us to do so
Herbivores eat more than a few bugs that are attached to the leaves as well.
Deer have been recorded killing and eating birds. Cattle in some parts of Australia actively hunt small animals. Even sloths will dine out on baby birds if they come across a nest. Animals aren't stupid enough to pass up concentrated nutrition when the opportunity arises.
Even multi generation human vegetarian cultures still derive close to or most of their nutrition from animal sources. In a recent study on Indian vegetarians, they found the get 45 to 55 percent of nutrition from dairy mostly plus eggs and some also from seafood. Making many of them "carvivores" using the most general definition (anything that gets more than 50% of nutrition from animals).😅
@@OGPedXing Do you have a source on this? I do know that there are hardly any full vegan cultures at least, due to the use of dairy and/or eggs.
@WhatIsMisophonia I've got a lot of book marks but I think it was this study: Nutritional profile of Indian vegetarian diets - the Indian Migration Study (IMS). Basically if you average the dairy section to the nutritional profile of cheese, ghee, milk and or yogurt, you get something like 45 to 55 percent animal product out of a daily calorie total of about 2800.
Another phenomenal addition to the amazing library this channel has amassed. I can’t believe this is free.
Some of our ancestors such as paranthropus boisei ate things like roots that required a strong jawbone to chew while others like habilus were able to scavenge meat and yet others like agaster were able to hunt with a persistence predation life style. It all depends on where our ancestors broke the mold and decided on an omnivorous diet where they could easily rethink their menus. I learned a lot of this on the walking with cavemen series, so i apologize if it isn't quite up to date, but i just found it fascinating. If anyone wanted to dive in, it's a pretty good series breaking down our non-human primate ancestors onward.
we're not related to paranthropus. They are not our ancestors, they're a sister lineage, a dead branch.
@@wrencormier513 interesting you say that because the show mentioned that too.
but only meat increased their brain size
I'm always sad then the episode ends. You make such great eductional content, with beautiful art and excellent story telling to help the audience visualize and immerse ourselves in the subject. ❤
I can’t visualize shit. Thanks caveman ancestors which gave me shit genetics.
i don't know who wouldn't find this stuff fascinating - thank you for SUCH an interesting, informative & articulate documentary.
It’s highly dependent on the human population. The colder the climate, the more meat. The warmer the climate, the more plants. The Inuit, the furtherest north population, eat almost exclusively marine animals. Northern Europeans eat more meat than Southern Europeans (historically; don’t know modern per capita consumption). When you get to places like Indonesia before the Europeans they were almost exclusively herbivorous, eating fruits and insects. It’s hard to grow crops in the winter or gather fruits or veggies. So, people survived by eating animals. Climate determines diet.
Within the past 20ish thousand years ago with the mass extinction of the megafauna more so but before that the majority of human populations were nomadic hunters that followed the megafauna.
@@iancanada6875 - As long as humans had access to megafauna (and maybe shellfish), they had little interest in plant foods other than seasonal ripe fruit and honey. But keep in mind that, even in equatorial regions, the wet season producing fruit and honey on average only lasts 2-3 months.
@@Althesia A diet consisting mainly of cereals and pulses easily exceeds your minimum protein requirements.
As for B12 we do indeed need animal based foods.
There can also be other micronutrient issues with a vegan diet but protein is really not a major concern.
@@edmondantes4338 - Requirements aside, vegans suffer in the Northern Canadian winters. Always cold, weak muscles and cramps, unable to walk any distance in wind and snow. You can only abuse your body that way if you live in a place that doesn't put demands on it just to exist.
And the Maasai, lining on the equator, drink blood.
I believe that our stomachs are far more acidic than most other carnivores. Meaning that we were more likely to carrion, just like hyenas. Fruit or Meat, no anything and anything we could find, hunt or scavenge, we were and are still very resourceful and optimistic animals. Great video. This channel is a great addition to your other channels.
Explains why we are naturally so lazy. We let the specialists do the work.😂
I think you mean opportunistic, not optimistic
We're still scavenging to this day.
Idk if I could eat a pure raw meat diet, and I eat raw meat regularly. It would probably get me sick after awhile.
Except we easily get food poisoning if the food isn't processed properly, at times even fatal food poisoning. Clearly not scavengers.
best informative channel on youtube
appreciate your dedication for such research
No, it's "history of the universe". That channel's great. This one is terrible.
@@mastpg Oh shut up. Just because the subject is different doesn't mean the content is any worse. Heck the creators are the exact same people.
@@Sanquinity You're almost there. Keep thinking...try hard...you can do it.
I’m watching this because I enjoy learning, especially about this subject; but I highly suspect this will become a video that many teachers and professors will make a packet for to have a ‘movie day’ for the class on a Wednesday or Thursday.
Your videos are always fascinating, well researched and presented, I look forward to the next one!
I was just wondering when the next episode was coming. Thank you! 🙏
Do not give your DNA to random companies.
Na, just random women.
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Do not give in to paranoia.
Nobody cares about you or your DNA, ditto for me 😅
Don't get involved in cumpanies with random women.
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I'm looking forward to telling someone that humans have the stomach acidity of carrion eaters next time someone asks if something that's been sitting out a while is still good to eat!
So the Sunday roast of "meat and two veg" is still on the table?
Made my day seeing this pop up in my feed!
I just want to thank the universe for allowing food to be a thing. What a wonderful and amazing cycle of energy to be apart of. I hope I taste good to the microbes that consume my corpse.
And I thought History of the Earth was my favorite channel. Really well done! Again! ❤🎉
History of the universe, history of the earth, voices of the past, and now this one. Am I missing any? They always make absolutely top-tier content!
Kurtzegagt and the Simon Whistler-verse are also in my spotlight.
2:29 Dude on the bottom left defo been eating some mushrooms
Bro the fact I read this comment at exactly 2:29 😭😭
Absolutely love your channels! Is the History of the Earth channel/series over?
same question here! I hope it isnt!
No more coming soon
@@margaretkelly7537 :(
Me eating pringles with egg:
Very relatable
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37:29 "-and so can you with our sponsor *hello fresh*" would have fit so well there
Maybe I'm just easy to please but I absolutely love Part 4 being titled "Food for Thought". It's the clever little details that really bring everything together.
YES! Aw man I get way too excited when I see your videos drop haha
My question is.. with posibility to have sustainable amount of food..
*is Vegetarianism possible?*
~I am practicing it for abou 3 years and I am wondering if I am harming myself or not. (28M-Europian/Czechia)
Doable for humans but not optimal.
@@sternleiche Evidence suggests otherwise.
@@PretendingToBeAHuman show me the evidence for this
Yes it's perfectly fine, just inconvenient and time consuming.
I loved the drawings so much in this, and so well detailed I love it!!!
Brilliant video, I was absolutely glued to this one ❤
we are not what we eat but what we eat makes us who we are over time
Crazy how this dietry evolution accidentaly lead to the first spicies that left the earth
Awesome production, this channel is going places. Keep up the amazing content!
I'm. here to stay Legend .......... keep these vids comin ..... keep up the Fantastic work
I'm becoming far less tolerant of adverts on TH-cam recently. Double ads at the start, mid-roll ads... more and more I greet these events by simply switching off and doing something else instead.
BUT... There are some videos that I still want to see enough to stomach (no pun intended) the ads... And History of Humankind and (should it ever come back) History of the Earth are certainly in the latter group... Excellent as ever!
I made them so mad that they don’t show me ads anymore…I’m starting to believe I don’t exist in this reality…lol. Seriously, no ads in almost a year and it’s weird.
History of the earth posted a new video last week just so you know
just get an adblock bro
One time I got an entire minute of unskippibsle mid video ads.
How this channel has so low sub count. This is some discovery channel level stuff. Keep going mate.....
I accidentally finished the sentence in my head..."Whatever food he can find in his house"
Same. 21:18
Are we getting any more History of the Earth videos?
I like the hypothesis that are brain size grew bigger with the advent of our shoulders being able to throw objects mainly rocks. Other Apes are unable to throw like we can. So, we soon learned the damage this weapon could inflict. However throwing rocks at a lion by yourself from a distance may not be enough, but when a group of us get really good at hurling stones at lions, even they will have enough. And this maybe what brought us together and then a need for communication. It's almost impossible to get a group of chimpanzees to work together, but soon as you start working together you will need a larger brain to orchestrate. Language is the key for a larger brain. It sounds really plausible, imagine the feeling of a group of you throwing rocks at those creatures that used to hurt you, but no more. I believe orcas are next in line with brain size compared to body size and look at how they work together.
You ever seen a chimp, gorilla, orangutan, etc. put its hands on its hands and raise its elbows up? We gained this flexibility by swinging around in trees. Just because they could physically throw a spear doesn't mean they have the mind that comprehends how. Also, chimps are documented creating crude spears and stabbing smaller prey monkeys in a sort of icepick/hammerfist/javalin type grip (same form used to throw a spear). It wouldn't take a big stretch from there to make longer and heavier spears to get at prey from a longer distance, and then to find that throwing such a spear could cause damage. That being said, it's likely that hunters which could throw harder and more accurately were more successful, thereby breeding in larger amounts, so there is some credibility to humans having a better throwing arm, if slightly.
I think we got the ability to eat meat from eating insects. The majority of insects are edible to us and we can digest chitin. Insects and stachy plants are perfect for growing a big brain
Better question would be "what _didn't_ or _wouldn't_ we eat?" Humans are quintessential opportunists, and will eat whatever is available in virtually any environment they find themselves in. If there was meat, we ate meat... if there was fish, we ate fish... if there were fruits and tubers, guess what, we ate those too. Virtually anything is a potential food source for humans other than leaves... and we eat those too somehow.
We even consume stuff that is just poisonous, either cause we like or we've developed some weird process to make ot edible
Shit is gettin real dark out here in the states-I needed this🙏🏼
Yea I feel that. But listening to science stuff kinda calms me down ya know?
@@KrazyStargazer exactly-therapeutic asf lol
@addyyyyg I think it helps keep stuff in perspective. Like no mater the drama of life it all has a reason you know?
@@KrazyStargazer Absolutely, gotta keep on keepin on & stick together the best we can
I only eat water, salt and a little bit of rock
i only eat nectar and pollen
I only eat milk
@@eSKAone- you drink it silly
cannibal
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Im amazed how interesting and well done this video is
This channel is a blessing upon humanity
Ignoring fungi? Interesting
Porque no los dos
That image of the person who is biting their lip is a tad unsettling.
This content available on Spotify would be amazing
Thank you so much for this. I've been so tired of people proclaiming we evolved to eat vegan diets or some raw meat diet. People have gotten human diets so twisted, and it's made teaching biological anthropology so much more difficult. This is such a good analysis.
The amount of people that improved their life with keto or low carb diets for the better also mirrors this. We need a varied diet. Also what this misses is that a millennium of farming have deprived the soil of trace elements. Ultra-processed "food" also is something even more different to the normal food processing we did in the past.
@@FirstDaggersave the soil!!! Doesn't matter what we eat if the nutrients isn't in the food system in the first place.
@@superfinevids However ultra processed food and seed oils use up and deprive important body functions of their vitamins and minerals even more, and cause inflammation as the body misrecognises them. So it matters what we eat. Biology is complex.
@@FirstDagger Oh I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all. If that's how I came across let me elucidate. I mean that all nutrients starts in soil, or sea. If the soil doesn't have minerals then we can't even make DNA.
@@FirstDaggerif you're concerned about the overuse of soil and nutrients you should be against cattle farming. We don't need beef and chickens are far more efficient with the land per pound of meat.
Scavenger is the correct unpopular answer but high fat is required for our brains and our guts shrank.
your arguement is fats
@@LukeTEvans animal fats yes
Amazing content. God we’re lucky to have such easy access to great media and information
I never thought out the relationship between humans and weeds. I'd love to learn more about it!
Before watching the video: I’m calling it. Everything. We are omnivores.
It's one of the main reasons we're so damn adaptable.
@@barneyrubble4293 Yeah, we would not be evolved to the point to ask the question “what did we evolve to eat” if we were carnivores or herbivores.
Meat is just lighter on the gut .
Both .. we are omnivores
Best video I've ever seen on this topic.
A very hard and cool though experiment is trying to bridge between an ape like animal group feasting on raw meat while forming social bonds, and me, alone in my cozy flat binging on a brownie piece with enough sugar and fat to sustain the ape like animal for a week or more.
What’s the experiment?
Let me start off by explaining the three. Most herbivores and carnivores are specialists, and they are a bit more complicated than omnivores. First are carnivores, and there are three groups. There are hypercarnivore(obligate carnivores), mesocarnivore, and hypocarnivore. These animals need some amount of meat in their diet, be it their entire diet or even as little as a third of their diet. No matter the amount, meat is a necessity to survive. Herbivores do not need any meat and live off plants. There are surprisingly few obligate herbivores. Most of them just need a diet of mostly plants to survive and can survive on meat if need be. Some herbivores are even called opportunistic carnivores, meaning that they will eat meat if the opportunity presents itself. Deer, cows, elephants, hippos, horses, squirrels, and such. Then we have omnivores. Omnivores are generalists. They lack the specialist behavior of carnivores and herbivores, searching widely for food sources. Because of this, they are better able to withstand changes within their ecological niche. This is best seen in common pest species like raccoons and rodents who were able to adapt to modern society conditions as opposed to wild conditions. They thrive in our modern cities. Humans are best defined as omnivores. We are generalists and are able to, and even have, adapted to various changes to our lifestyle.
Why do we not eat more meat? It's more nutritious, right? Well, yes, but only in certain circumstances under strict diets. Meat is also more full of various things that negatively affect your health and overall quality of life in high quantities. A lot of people could definitely stand to go with less meat and more plants. Why do we eat plants at all, though? Because it's what our ancestors ate. There are plenty of examples where a carnivore evolved from a herbivores species, so why not us? Whales are great examples. The ocean is a vast place and full of food. Their ancestors preferred eating plants near the shore using the water for cover, and over time, they got more adept at swimming. A higher energy requirement was added to their lifestyle, and they began eating smaller marine animals, and as they would start to take over the ocean and spread out into different niches, their diets would adapt. Orcas eating large prey, dolphins eating small prey, and blue whales taking advantage of the smallest prey. In our case, we had no pressure to change our diet. Our ancestors lived in a forest and ate plants. Some time later, our ancestors got pushed into a transitioning environment that would start to become a savanna, but there were still plenty of plants to be found, and our lifestyle didn't change much. They would have eaten the ocasional small animal or eggs because we are oportunists. Once we did become bipedal, then our diet took a larger change. Bipedalism is less energy efficient, so as the savanna started to take shape and more running was necessary, small animals became part of our diet. This led to a shift in our bodies to digest proteins. Once committed down that path, the next objective became how to obtain more of that meat protein. Our bodies would then become fully upright, and we lost our hair. This meant better, some of the best, in fact, thermoregulation in nature. We could run longer and adopt persistence hunting. Small animals at first, and then later species would take to big game with better weapons to feed larger groups and the greater energy demand. Our brains take up 20% of our daily energy after all. That's the reason a big brain is so rare in nature. It's a taxing trait that is hard to pull off, but the benefit is astounding if you can get it. Notice all of this, though, all of the talk about energy needs and hunting. Plants are much easier to get. Plants are more efficient. Not every hunt was successful, but all gathering of plants was. There is only so much meat on an animal to go around, but there is plenty of plant for all. Tooth wear patterns show that all of our ancestors, even archaic sapiens and modern humans, in early modern history ate mostly plant.
Now, onto our history as humans. I know exactly what humans should be eating because it's my job. I do paleoecological reconstruction with our ancestors. I look for and identify stable isotopes to understand the diet patterns of them and other animals based on jaws, skulls, and entire skeletons. When I find stable isotopes, that tells me what the climate was like and what they were eating. I can confirm this based on tooth wear and their skeletal and jaw structure. I can also confirm by looking at today's ecosystem to see what lives there and running it by people who study that area today. One of the oldest human family tree inhabitants is Sahelanthropus tchadensis. This is also thought to be our last common ancestor with chimps, but I won't fully go into that. They had a plant based diet for the most part, and as we get later in our history, we see our ancestors become more generalist, eating small mammals, lizards, and insects. The first we see of widespread human meat eating in the archeological record is with H. habilis. Their diet was versatile and they were able to eat a range of foods, including tougher foods like leaves, woody plants, and some animal tissues, but they did not routinely consume or specialize in eating hard foods like brittle nuts, seeds, dried meat, or tubers that were harder. The animal tissues they ate would have been small ammounts of marrow and muscles.
The proportions of our bodies today are a product of millions of years of evolution, and H. erectus is the one who first evolved a narrower ribcage and pelvis, shorter large intestines, and longer small intestines like we see today. The tall bodies and large brains of H. erectus individuals required a lot of energy on a regular basis to function, so eating meat and other types of protein that could be quickly digested made it possible to absorb nutrients with a shorter digestive tract, making more energy available faster. Honey and hard tubers likely would have been significant food sources for erectus as they were abundant and easy energy sources. This made the early human gut smaller, and it decreased the time it took to digest food to gain its energy. Finally, we get to H. heidelbergensis, where we first see big game hunting and meat being incorporated as a bigger part of the overall diet as they went farther north and into colder environments. Eating a considerable amount of meat is therefore relatively new to us as a species. Even when we started practicing agriculture, meat was still only a fraction of our diet. We are omnivores. That's what most primates are. We eat both plants and animals and are generally omnivores. Some, like baboons, eat mostly meat, and some like gorillas eat mostly plants, but either way, they can still eat anything and are able to survive without one or the other. If we look at our closest relatives alive today, the Panins (Chimps and Bonobos), they regularly hunt smaller animals but continue to survive on mostly plants. Even if we didn't have vast amounts of fossil evidence, genetic evidence, and even just visual and cultural evidence, looking at our relatives tells us that most of our diet should be from plants. Root, stem, leaf, and flowering vegetables. Fruits are another important part of plants, but overall vegetables should be your main plant source. Our ancestors have always eaten every part of plants. Meat and animal products are something that can be about a quarter of your diet or maybe a third at most. "Carnivore" dieters are wrong. Vegans are wrong. So-called doctors who represent each diet and recommend them are even worse. They are irresponsible.
Excellent analysis -
outstanding.
Thank you
Look at the research of Loren Cordain, Bill Schindler, Mary Ruddick, etc. Many of the conventional assumptions have been proven wrong or at least strongly challenged. Based on better evidence, a new understanding has been developing over the past half century.
Weird how true baboons are meat eaters while the closely related gelada baboons are the only primates to eat mostly grass.
Don't watch this on an empty stomach! I had a burrito with extra cheese. What about you?
I just ate a pack of pringles with 4 eggs
Fentanyl
cheesy brocolli & some sort of noodle caserole
forgot about the parts of the victims too
spaghetti
a bun with milka hazelnut paste
I like food. Thank you, ancient monke ancestors for making it so i can eat so much of it.
Brilliant content here. Thank you so much
I like to eat food
Omg me too
This is one of those questions that inevitably will end up in a threeway trench war: Meat vs. veg vs. both. But most likely we eat whatever we feel for, be it meat, plants, or both, either from a social, religious, moral, or (in probably most cases) a financial viewpoint. In the end, the human body doesn't care, as long as it gets the energy it needs, whether it's from the supermarket or the neighbour's garbage bin.
Well, plants cause us cavities, meat doesn’t and only bc we can doesn’t mean we should.
Absolutely. We have a moral obligation to go vegan because we can now.
Well said mogenss
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But what about the poor plants?
@@oggyoggy1299 Not sentient. No pain, no ethical relevance.
Amazing content! I've learned a lot
BRAVO! Finally science instead of zealotism!
We did not evolve to eat processed food.
Hahaha! But the pace at which we are eating processed food. I think future gens will adapt 😅
@@abdullahshahid388 If it doesn't kill us first lol
The author mentions processed foods specifically. So…yes we did. But he’s talking about bread and cheese I assume.
@13_Cowboy Yes processing actual natural food i.e. cooking, not consuming artificial food products.
We will evolve
Pizza. End of discussion 😅
Addendum: 3 meat pizza, Though I am partial to a good spinach pizza.
Honestly with the way I feel after eating pizza, I don't think I was evolved to digest it...
Awesome. Full stop. Best TH-cam channel, History of take a bow!
Fire vs. meat discussion mentions fat, but it's worth thinking of fat as the solution to the question. 'Man the Fat Hunter' by Miki Ben Dor and 'The Fat of the Land' by Jessica Thompson both focus on fat for the source of our big brains. Energy from fat doesn't require fire, but provides the energy to grow a big brain, which makes fire control & creation possible.
My tastesbuds tell me that I evolved to rend the flesh of less herbivores.
„Once their prey had died, the lions waste no time …“
Nature is red in tooth and claw: predators don’t politely wait for their victim to expire
Excellent content and narration. Love these historic type videos on human existence.
If we're going by evolutionary terms, calling them not quite human is equivalent to calling us not quite human.
Rice, Maise, wheat, barley globally in human timelines suggests we ate grass and grass seeds, personally I think some claims are based on that particular person's diet, our appendix seems apt for grass seeds
Have you seen wild grass seeds? You would not get enough energy from grass seeds to survive.
As per my original comment, rice, maze, wheat, barley and many many other grains are various grass seeds
Meat or veg?
How about both?
meat
I don't get how some people don't get that we eat large amounts of both, as if we haven't been overwhelmingly omnivore as we evolved into modern man. Just proof that people will believe whatever they want.
Got meat?
@@WhatIsMisophonia The funniest thing is most "meatbros" as I like to call them probably eat a good helping of non-meat foods.
BTW I do love meat personally. But we are omnivores. Not that complicated.
@@reksraven6909 I think a sort of carnivore generalist type diet would be healthy; That is to say, A variety of mostly lean meats (pasture raised and/or wild caught), plus a bit of carbs in the form of plant matter that has the highest protective attributes while being the least potentially toxic.
Wonderful video! 👏
Yes.
Was able to answer the video without watching it.
Much of what we currently eat is unfamiliar to the human body. That's why there are so many diseases and disorders, our bodies are confused.
There wasn't exactly less disease in the past, if anything there was far more things out there likely to kill you.
I click on to every science vid I see, and listen intently for the presenter to say Homo Erectus … or Uranus.
I don’t want to do it. I have to do it.
you'd love Mianus. do you know how big Mianus is? i can't wait for you to check out Mianus!
Is there a relationship between fatty acids in meat consumption and development of brain size from early homosapians?
Interestingly brain size is only tangentially important to intelligence and our evolution. Currently we are increasing in brain size again but our brains shrunk over recent millennia.
Now this doesn't mean we became less intelligent. The correlation between intelligence and brain strucutre is still not really well understood. We mostly know that brain size and surface tend to correlate with cognitive capabilities (hence the smooth brain meme. Smooth equals less surface then Wrinkly).
A theory is that our brain required more energy as it grew larger and meat was the most readily available source of nutrients.
In the end we are omnivores and having a balanced diet is more important than the question "Meat, or no meat?"
"So why did the human brain suddenly get bigger so quickly, could it have been aliens....Ancient alien theorists say yes"
I can't access my heritage because I live in Lebanon and the company is Israeli and banned IP addresses linked to Lebanon. What a great company that really digs deep into selective heritage 😂
If you understood how long canines have coexisted with humans then this is a well understood question. The best way to tell a domesticated dog and a wolf is dogs can digest far more starch than wolves because we fed them from our leftovers because they helped us. We ate meat which is one reason why the ate our scraps in the first place. Only young earth creationists and vegans don't get this.
Thank you Samia Bouzid for the history lesson.
Question for a friend: can your hair show if you eat entire sleeves of Chips Ahoy at a time?
Only if you do it weekly lol.
everything that doesnt directly kill us
and even the things that kill us
People literally poison themselves for fun
Dont need 52 minutes for the obvious answer that we are omnivores and can eat almost anything.
As someone who also paid attention in science class. The video is still pretty interesting as it goes over how the human species adapted..
we cant tho.
I’ll never get over the fact that ants probably “invented” farming a billion years before we did or something
An exceptional video, quite extraordinary.
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hiya papaya
In 1989 (occupied) Palestine* suffered a drought.
Go to live in Palestine.
@@mrvn000 yes that’s what the situation needs, more foreing settlers.
@@mrvn000whatever your point was supposed to be I'm sure it was dumb as shit
I always thought if we can ate that ant fungus and grow it ourselves, creating food from vegetal waste. We could turn even inedible plants into food.
In short, humans are not like omnivorous pigs, we took it even further to eat whatever.
We're like opossums. And we sometimes eat opossums.