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stepheny2k2 t1_iyce8t1 wrote
We're omnivores not carnivores! It's the variety that helped give us the competitive advantage through history. We've also, over time, lost the ability to produce certain chemicals naturally as we get them from our diet...such as vitamin C. Nearly all other animals can produce it. So Vitamin C would be missing from your diet if you only ate meat and you'd die from scurvy. So yeah you wouldn't be smart to only eat meat now but you wouldn't have been smart to only eat meat millions of years back either.
Roberto_Sacamano t1_iyce9ta wrote
This is probably oversimplified, but I'm too ignorant to actually dispute it
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Singer-Such t1_iycl49m wrote
No, interacting with each other in complex societies made people smarter.
Calm-Ad-9867 t1_iycu689 wrote
Yes because everything is black and white and off course there was only one influence on human evolution.
You need more interaction, or meat, whatever does the trick
chill_stoner_0604 t1_iycbn30 wrote
That's because cooking meat expanded our diet rather than replacing it