/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11801920
Oh boy, I get to post the table again!

>>11781171
>mostly foraged diet
Yeah, nah.

Why did humans evolve an upright gait, long, powerful legs, shoulders with a bigger range of motion than other primates that makes them perfect for throwing, sweat glands with a capacity for thermoregulation only rivaled by horses, hairless bodies, small teeth, small jaw muscles, and a digestive tract that is shorter than any other primate compared to our body size?

Because we evolved into persistence hunters. Our ancestors chased after prey animals, who would run away until they had to rest. Then our ancestors would follow the tracks and show up before the animal could fully recover and it would run off again. This pattern would repeat itself until the animal collapsed from heat and exhaustion and our ancestors could chuck sharp sticks at it until it died. Homo sapiens evolved to be nature's Terminator.

A mostly plant-based diet was also impossible outside of the tropics, like in Europe, where fruit and nuts are seasonal. Our ancestors would have needed to hunt and trap to even have a chance at surviving. A single deer could feed 4 people for 5 days. In the time between hunts the tribe could set traps, forage seasonal plants, and make clothes and tools. Where would they have found the time for any of this while living mostly off plants?

>>11249805
Why did humans evolve an upright gait, long, powerful legs, shoulders with a bigger range of motion than other primates that makes them perfect for throwing, sweat glands with a capacity for thermoregulation only rivaled by horses, hairless bodies, small teeth, small jaw muscles, and a digestive tract that is shorter than any other primate compared to our body size?

Because we evolved into persistence hunters. Our ancestors chased after prey animals, who would run away until they had to rest. Then our ancestors would follow the tracks and show up before the animal could fully recover and it would run off again. This pattern would repeat itself until the animal collapsed from heat and exhaustion and our ancestors could chuck sharp sticks at it until it died. Homo sapiens evolved to be nature's Terminator.

A mostly plant-based diet was also impossible outside of the tropics, like in Europe, where fruit and nuts are seasonal. Our ancestors would have needed to hunt and trap to even have a chance at surviving. A single deer could feed 4 people for 5 days. In the time between hunts the tribe could set traps, forage seasonal plants, and make clothes and tools. Where would they have found the time for any of this while living mostly off plants?

>>11125552
Impossible due to the maximum coloric proportion (how many calories worth of a plant or fruit you can eat before throwing up) of wild plants and the caloric density of wild plant foods outside of a select few biomes in the tropics.