Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 18:13:08 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 00:34:13 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> reversing evolution. Our bodies (and digestive systems) have evolved
>>>>> greatly since Paleolithic times so it certainly doesn't make sense
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about other stuff, but if you want to get scientific, the
>>>> human digestive system clearly puts us in the frugivore category, just
>>>> the same as most other primates
>>>>
>>>> there is a theory that our brains became larger as a result of cooking
>>>> food and greater availability of glucose (less work chewing, more work
>>>> thinking)
>>>>
>>>> but our teeth haven't changed much and neither have our innards
>>>
>>> And you're wrong on both counts. Our digestive system, starting in
>>> the mouth changed significantly once we started cooking food. We are
>>> clearly not frugivores. You've been reading too many raw/vegetarian
>>> kook sites.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> I posted this before -- here's yer kook website
>>
>> "In other words, there is very little evidence that our guts are terribly
>> special and the job of a generalist primate gut is primarily to eat
>> pieces of plants."
>>
>> <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/>
>>
>> He does come right out and say that our digestive system *did* evolve
>> with agriculture and processing (fermenting and cooking) of food, but
>> not anatomically -- which is what I meant by teeth and innards -- but
>> physiologically, with upregulation of amylase and persistence of lactase
>> into adulthood.
>
> The human digestive became *physically* shorter with the introduction
> of cooked meat and plants that were easier to digest. Our jaws and
> teeth became smaller and weaker because food became softer.
>
> -sw

you mean "humanoid" digestive ...tract?

clearly we don't frequent the same kook websites