Paranthropus boisei reconstruction
Photographed at Westfälisches Museum für Archäologie, Herne
Photographed by User:Lillyundfreya
No nuts ping.
Wheat, rye, dandelions, clover, parsley and I’m sure they had nuts and berries and root plants and MEAT!! I don’t think we have ever found a society that did not eat meat.
Photographed at Westfälisches Museum für Archäologie, Herne
Photographed by User:Lillyundfreya
shoulda been smokin it instead...
Now that we are civilized, we smoke grass.
You seem to have misspelled the word “ape”; that thing in the picture might be a “nutcracker ape”, but he’s no relative of ours.
I suspect that this is not true, just wishful thinking, for several reasons.
To start with, primitive grasses have very little energy compared to cellulose, which is only digestible among larger animals, by ruminants, that have multiple stomachs, and specialized bacteria to help break it down.
It does not dominate the diet of other animals, such as gorillas, that eat a wide selection of foods. And they prefer more complex grasses, like bamboo and cane, with a higher energy content. Otherwise they eat grubs, broad leafed plants and fruits, and whatever else is handy.
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The next grad student to study the baboon will be able to hypothesize that the baboon thought to eat grass actually ate nuts.
Vegans have always been with us and they always end up extinct.
