I eat a LOT of smoked oysters; they are relatively cheap, filling little protein bombs for a low carb diet, but yes, I often wonder about how they came to be part of the human diet. First, to the casual observer, they look like an underwater rock. You have to crack them open to see what’s inside. Presumably some early human noticed some other creature cracking them open to eat them, and figured they’d give it a try.
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This may be why coastal Portugal is the last known settlement of Neanderthals.
I think the reason they went extinct is staring us in the face. Homo Sapiens were better at getting food.
Consider:
Homo Sapiens came out of the African plains. They were adept at efficient travel over long distances. Neanderthals were very muscular and inefficient travelling long distances. As populations increased and food grew scarce Homo Sapiens used less calories to acquire food and therefore required less food to maintain themselves.
Homo Sapiens had deeper voices than Neanderthals therefore their voices traveled longer distances than Neanderthals. This provided a much larger area for Homo Sapien hunting groups to operate in using coordinated, self-supporting hunting tactics.
The Neanderthals simply starved to death.