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Humans haven't evolved around a meat centric diet. Humans have evolved around an omnivorous diet. Meat and plant consumption varied depending on food availability influenced by a number of factors, like climate, location and season.
"It’s [Hadza's diet] a balance between calories from animals and calories from plants. The long-term average is around 50:50, but it varies. Sometimes they’re eating a lot of meat, sometimes very little."
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/our-ancestors-paleo-diet-had-carbs
"The diet of prehistoric humans was determined by the seasons, the availability of resources, climatic conditions, and the biotope they lived in. With a lifestyle dominated by gathering, the available food consisted primarily of plants (80%) such as leafy greens, sweet grasses, nuts, seeds, tubers, berries, roots, fruits, and pulses as well as animal proteins from wild animals and fish (20%)."
"In principle, humans are omnivores by biological design. Unlike other species, they are food generalists, which means that they do not make any specific demands on their diet. This allows them to survive under diverse conditions in almost all geographical regions by consuming a wide range of organic substances provided by the animal and plant worlds." - Nutrition and Health in Human Evolution–Past to Present
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9460423/
"The study, analyzing remains from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa sites in Peru, reveals an 80 percent plant-based and 20 percent meat diet among early Andeans."
"The commonly used term “hunter-gatherers” for describing early humans should be revised to “gatherer-hunters” in the context of the Andes in South America [...]."
"For these early humans of the Andes, spanning from 9,000 to 6,500 years ago, there is indeed evidence that hunting of large mammals provided some of their diets. But the new analysis of the isotopic composition of the human bones shows that plant foods made up the majority of individual diets, with meat playing a secondary role."
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-history-groundbreaking-new-research-reveals-that-early-human-diets-were-primarily-plant-based/
"Our results unequivocally demonstrate a substantial plant-based component in the diets of these hunter-gatherers. This distinct dietary pattern challenges the prevailing notion of high reliance on animal proteins among pre-agricultural human groups."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z
"The real Paleolithic diet, though, wasn’t all meat and marrow. It’s true that hunter-gatherers around the world crave meat more than any other food and usually get around 30 percent of their annual calories from animals. But most also endure lean times when they eat less than a handful of meat each week."
"Year-round observations confirm that hunter-gatherers often have dismal success as hunters. The Hadza and Kung bushmen of Africa, for example, fail to get meat more than half the time when they venture forth with bows and arrows."
"No one eats meat all that often, except in the Arctic, where Inuit and other groups traditionally got as much as 99 percent of their calories from seals, narwhals, and fish."
"“Frankly, I think that misses half of the story. They want meat, sure. But what they actually live on is plant foods.” What’s more, she found starch granules from plants on fossil teeth and stone tools, which suggests humans may have been eating grains, as well as tubers, for at least 100,000 years—long enough to have evolved the ability to tolerate them."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/?topicId=article.20200729093231781
"It’s [Hadza's diet] a balance between calories from animals and calories from plants. The long-term average is around 50:50, but it varies. Sometimes they’re eating a lot of meat, sometimes very little."
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/our-ancestors-paleo-diet-had-carbs
"The diet of prehistoric humans was determined by the seasons, the availability of resources, climatic conditions, and the biotope they lived in. With a lifestyle dominated by gathering, the available food consisted primarily of plants (80%) such as leafy greens, sweet grasses, nuts, seeds, tubers, berries, roots, fruits, and pulses as well as animal proteins from wild animals and fish (20%)."
"In principle, humans are omnivores by biological design. Unlike other species, they are food generalists, which means that they do not make any specific demands on their diet. This allows them to survive under diverse conditions in almost all geographical regions by consuming a wide range of organic substances provided by the animal and plant worlds." - Nutrition and Health in Human Evolution–Past to Present
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9460423/
"The study, analyzing remains from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa sites in Peru, reveals an 80 percent plant-based and 20 percent meat diet among early Andeans."
"The commonly used term “hunter-gatherers” for describing early humans should be revised to “gatherer-hunters” in the context of the Andes in South America [...]."
"For these early humans of the Andes, spanning from 9,000 to 6,500 years ago, there is indeed evidence that hunting of large mammals provided some of their diets. But the new analysis of the isotopic composition of the human bones shows that plant foods made up the majority of individual diets, with meat playing a secondary role."
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-history-groundbreaking-new-research-reveals-that-early-human-diets-were-primarily-plant-based/
"Our results unequivocally demonstrate a substantial plant-based component in the diets of these hunter-gatherers. This distinct dietary pattern challenges the prevailing notion of high reliance on animal proteins among pre-agricultural human groups."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z
"The real Paleolithic diet, though, wasn’t all meat and marrow. It’s true that hunter-gatherers around the world crave meat more than any other food and usually get around 30 percent of their annual calories from animals. But most also endure lean times when they eat less than a handful of meat each week."
"Year-round observations confirm that hunter-gatherers often have dismal success as hunters. The Hadza and Kung bushmen of Africa, for example, fail to get meat more than half the time when they venture forth with bows and arrows."
"No one eats meat all that often, except in the Arctic, where Inuit and other groups traditionally got as much as 99 percent of their calories from seals, narwhals, and fish."
"“Frankly, I think that misses half of the story. They want meat, sure. But what they actually live on is plant foods.” What’s more, she found starch granules from plants on fossil teeth and stone tools, which suggests humans may have been eating grains, as well as tubers, for at least 100,000 years—long enough to have evolved the ability to tolerate them."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/?topicId=article.20200729093231781