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>>16376982
Eating a low carb diet and being in a state of ketosis aren't the same thing.
Nevermind that hunter-gatherers typically ate more carbs than fat, and very little saturated fat
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14112331_Eaton_SB_Eaton_III_SB_Konner_MJ_Paleolithic_nutrition_revisited_a_twelve-year_retrospective_on_its_nature_and_implications_Eur_J_Clin_Nutr_51_207-216

Even eskimos don't live in a ketogenic state
http://www.vladozlatos.com/project/files/pages/586/j.-biol.-chem.-1928-heinbecker-461-75.pdf

It makes more sense when you don't think of ketosis as a uniquely human thing. Any animal can go into a ketogenic state under the right conditions, which are usually starvation or extreme illness. No animal naturally lives in a state of ketosis or regularly undergoes it though. Animals evolve to avoid ketosis, and the more carnivorous an animal is, the harder it is for them to enter ketosis.