Eating Meat May Have 'Made Us Human' - Page 1

"Meat eating has always been considered one of the things that made us human, with the protein contributing to the growth of our brains," said Charles Musiba, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver, who helped make the discovery. "Our work shows that 1.5 million years ago we were not opportunistic meat eaters, we were actively hunting and eating meat."

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Thanks for sharing. Not only was that an interesting article, that whole site was interesting. I added it to my faves so I can go over and do more reading.

vonissk

Some would argue there is evidence for chimpanzees actively hunting for meat ;  maybe just
not as often as humans, so less knock-on effect on brain size ?

Yes Hund, that's probably where at least one split occurred.  The possibility of less vegetation (drought?)  could have led to more meat in the diet and thus, to the increase in brain size.  Interesting to think about, isn't it?

Meat tastes great, and look at all the extra stuff they got from the animal. Hides, bones for making tools, hoofs for perfume :) I'll read the article tomorrow.

We were always human, eating meat made us mobile.
Man needed mobility because he always depleted the resources of a given area in time.
Meat moves.
The things that we attribute to humanity are not exclusive to humans, other creatures share many of the same attributes we consider human.
Arrogance, self delusion, and the knowledge to deceive is what truly makes us human.
Our brains grew because our survival depended on it, we only think we are the top of the food chain.
I don't think we're all that special.

GSDtravels,

I would like to share something with you.

Horses and donkey’s are particular you can consider same kind of animal, and what is interesting that horses has 64 chromosomes and donkey’s has 62 chromosomes and it only differ by 2 chromosome and yet they are part of one kind…. Evolutionist say human has 46 chromosome and apes has 48 chromosomes and the differences again only of 2 chromosome, so in one case you have a difference but it’s not enough to put horses and donkeys in different kinds, and in another case you have generic difference; but evolutionist argue it is not enough chromosomes to put humans and apes in to different kind category.
 
So if we are looking for logical consistency of understanding?
 
Number of chromosomes is an interesting study, and it is indeed true that chimps have 48 and humans have 46 and tobacco also has 48 chromosomes… lol, Oohhh!
 
Amoebas have 50 and they say we came from Amoeboid; they have more chromosomes than we do. Chickens and dogs both have 78 they are identical twins… Fern has the most chromosomes 480, that is the ultimate goal of all evolution to become a fern so. I think common sense will tell you if you look through - you know Opossum, Redwood tree and Kidney bean all have 22 chromosomes.
 
The similarities I think are evidence of common designer; now if you want to believe that humans and apes have common ancestor - you certain welcome to believe that.

Shital,
you haven't gotten your pulpit up and running yet?


How many intelligent designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Got nothing better to do Shital?



Moons.

Ahh,
more name calling.