Eating meat helped early humans reproduce, spread around the globe

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  Apr 22, 2012 9:40 PM GMT

  Interesting.
  
  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/20/news/la-heb-meat-eating-reproduction-20120420
  
  

  If early humans had been vegans we might all still be living in caves, Swedish researchers suggested in an article Thursday.
  
  When a mother eats meat, her breast-fed child's brain grows faster and she is able to wean the child at an earlier age, allowing her to have more children faster, the article explains. That provided a distinct competitive advantage for early humans when limited resources and a small population made it difficult for them to thrive. "Eating meat enabled the breast-feeding periods and thereby the time between births to be shortened," said psychologist Elia Psouni of Lund University in Sweden. "This must have had a crucial impact on human evolution."

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  Apr 22, 2012 11:08 PM GMT

  Apparently, it`s all the calories and fat that really nourish and build the infant`s brain.
  
  Still, plenty of omnivoves and carnivores living in the jungle, though, like chimpanzees and tigers.

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