Chimps and bonobos are our closest living relative, then gorillas. The chimp diet consists of 2% meat in the wild, but we’ve got 7 million years of evolution between us and chimps. Given that we’ve been cooking for at least 300,000 years (possibly as long as 2,000,000 years) and that we spent a lot of time hunting mega fauna to extinction, I’m gonna go ahead and say that maybe making cross-species diet comparisons isn’t exactly helpful. I don’t see no chimp taking down an elephant, but we killed off mammoths with spears and arrows.
But again, we’re smart enough to construct a healthy vegan diet for ourselves, even if we’re not purpose-built for it.
Maybe because one of these species is the closest relative to humans and the other is just in the same class (mammals)
Chimps and bonobos are our closest living relative, then gorillas. The chimp diet consists of 2% meat in the wild, but we’ve got 7 million years of evolution between us and chimps. Given that we’ve been cooking for at least 300,000 years (possibly as long as 2,000,000 years) and that we spent a lot of time hunting mega fauna to extinction, I’m gonna go ahead and say that maybe making cross-species diet comparisons isn’t exactly helpful. I don’t see no chimp taking down an elephant, but we killed off mammoths with spears and arrows.
But again, we’re smart enough to construct a healthy vegan diet for ourselves, even if we’re not purpose-built for it.