[lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers?

[Victor]

Latest information I have is that H. Neanderthal was mostly a meat-man, 
while the H. sapiens out of Africa that eventually replaced him had a much 
more diverse diet.  This makes a good deal of sense considering that 
European Neanderthals, like the late Inuit, lived under arctic conditions 
where meat was more plentiful than edible vegetable matter while sapiens 
developed in biomes  relatively rich in edible plants. The relatively low 
energy costs and physical risks in plant collection and processing make 
access to plentiful vegetable foods a positive advantage for the growth and 
permanency of human settlement, and in fact sapiens settlements were larger 
and probably were far more complexly organized than those of Neanderthals.

While both Neanderthal and sapiens suffered from the last glacial expansion, 
the more developed social organization of sapiens probably enabled them to 
work out much more effective survival techniques than could the sparsely 
distributed and much smaller communities of Neanderthal.

It is unlikely that early men were ever vegetarians by choice, but its 
highly likely that the more diversified diet and the physical capacity to 
digest plant foods would have given sapiens an important "edge"on 
Neanderthal when it came to adapting to any kind of environment.
Victor
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> --- ravi <lbo at kreise.org> wrote:
> e biologists and anthropologists have
> theorized that humans were much more gatherers (the
> women doing the
> gathering which served as the primary source of food)
> than hunters
>
> --
> Wouldn't this have depended heavily on time and
> location? I can't see Europe in the Ice Age as being
> very amenable to gathering vegetables.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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