Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians- Scientific American

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2. Read the comments to this opinion piece. They are what is worth reading, not this.

Comment No. 6:

This entire article is irrelevant.

Humans largely survived and thrived on animal products throughout the paleolithic. They helped make us human, they are one of the reasons why we aren’t more like chimps and gorillas, hanging around the equator engaging in copraphagia.

This is some incredibly lazy scholarship, if you can call it that. I’ve never seen a more hand-wavy comparison of gut composition. Those who have done actual quantitative studies on human gut composition have concluded that we are specially adapted to consume animal food (not exclusively). The author could have saved himself a lot of time by looking for this research instead of making up his own arguably irresponsible hand-waving. Maybe the author is trying to be more like our chimp and gorilla cousins by not only believing but also consuming his own feces?