Dana Carpender wrote:
> Krusty wrote:
>
> > > wrote
> >
> >>Roughly ten thousand years, sure.
> >
> >
> > I've always read that we were vegetarians for roughly MOST of our existence
> > on earth prior to evolving larger brains.
>
> Read where? Vegetarian websites? Because I've read repeatedly that the
> hunter-gatherer diet generally consisted of roughly 45-65% of calories
> from animal food, with the rest coming from vegetables, fruit in season,
> nuts and seeds, and the like.

Read where? :b

> > The only reason we evolved larger brains that allowed tool building and
> > communications was that suddenly, not so very far back, we started to eat
> > meats. Proteins.
> >
> > So I'm inclined to believe that most of our time on earth was in fact,
> > eating vegetables and grains.
>
> How did people eat grain in any quantity before agriculture? A real
> bitch to collect all those little seeds.

The same way they collected all those veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds.
Grains grow naturally in large patches; collecting the seeds isn't all
that much more of a bother really, especially when you're generally
collecting what you and a few other individuals will eat.

How do you suppose agriculture came about, by the way?