Grazing animals that eat a diet that is almost exclusively vegetation in nature have to spend about 20 hours a day feeding.
Eating meat has to have been a major step forward in the human evolutionary cycle. Much more calories and nutrition gained from eating a smaller portion of meat and therefore more time that can be devoted to social activity and other pursuits.
That science has developed much more beyond the time of Ardrey and further confirms that Ardrey was on the right track.
ReplyDeleteGrazing animals that eat a diet that is almost exclusively vegetation in nature have to spend about 20 hours a day feeding.
ReplyDeleteEating meat has to have been a major step forward in the human evolutionary cycle. Much more calories and nutrition gained from eating a smaller portion of meat and therefore more time that can be devoted to social activity and other pursuits.
A grazing animal and herbivore has the vast percentage of body devoted to body for processing grass and other green matter.
ReplyDeleteHumans devoted a much larger percentage of their body mass to BRAIN size and development of that same organ.
Time wasted grazing and ruminating far less and again, other pursuits can be accomplished.