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mysuzuki2

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11. Wouldn't it be nice if we had some australopithecine poop!

Reply to Warpy (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 05:00 PM

Jun 2012

You are right about them eating almost anything, I think. One of the most interesting things about prople and our bio-cultural evolution is that we have found ways to process foods before eating in such a way as to make them edible. Manioc and acorns for example cannot generally be eaten w/o fairly extensive processing. I think this sort of behavior may have begun fairly early in our evolutionary history.

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Not only that, but they might have died of starvation Warpy Jun 2012 #6

Wouldn't it be nice if we had some australopithecine poop! mysuzuki2 Jun 2012 #11

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