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.
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.