Homo Erectus Ate Crunchy Food

Discover News ^ | 11-22-2005 | Jennifer Viegas

[GOP_1900AD]

Oh, definitely, they must have been vegans and worshipped Gaia. And someday, when Ecotopia rules the Earth, we all will again! /sarcasm :-)

[GOP_1900AD]

Come on, skunk beer affectionados are not THAT BAD! I even drink Heinecken once in a while!

[ApplegateRanch]

"Both of the species would probably have focused on high energy-yield, easy-to-consume foods, such as soft fruits when they could get them," says Ungar.

"The differences between H. habilis and H. erectus suggest that the latter may have focused a bit more on tough foods. They could have been meat, tough tubers or other items."

So, Habitual Cuss was mealy mouthed, while Erect Cuss chewed up everyone and everything in site, and Pithy Cuss just sat and starved?

And now their Modern Cuss descendants are again splitting into two lines: Domestic Cuss swills down predigested Human Chow, while rotting his "brain" on DU; but Rotten Cuss spends his time killing & grilling...and posting to FR.

[Brett66]

I guess he has now replaced "tourist guy" as the ubiquitous internet person. :)

[blam]

"I have read articles wherein researchers have mde the claim H. Erectus existed in Southeast Asia until about 50k years ago, which means at least three species of humans shared the Earth at the same time."

I think there were more than three. There is a Neanderthal type human in Asia...I posted a thread on him/it a while back. I'll see if I can find it.

[blam]

Ah, here it is:

Minatogawa People (An Asian Neanderthal?)

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

there's a web page for everything.

The Paleolithic Diet Page
What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate
http://www.paleodiet.com/

Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains?
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science, Volume 283, Number 5410 Issue of 26 Mar 1999, pp. 2004 - 2005
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Pennisi_99.html

[Hegemony Cricket]

As a tribute to Yule Gibbons, I try to eat some Christmas Tree shaped cookies at least once a year...

[WhiteGuy]

uhhhhhh.......

you said "Homo"

uhhhh heh heh............

uhhh heh heh heh

[SoothingDave]

I have now seen at least 20 different graphic versions of "the gentleman" imposed in some .gif on FR.

Here's the definitive page: Beer Looter Dude

SD

[ASA Vet]

I bet he's not even aware.

[Serb5150]

Sasha will only eat crunchy food.

[jwfiv]

Sweet little crunch-meister that she is ... )

Little Homo Felinus Tubbus Precious.

[PoorMuttly]

Actually, to the keen and well trained scientific eye (my left one, if I squint), one can plainly see that if they ate the carrots pictured, they must have eaten the wire bands as well, which would lead to accelerated tooth erosion, eventually.

Wharever the cause, me not surprised they ate crunchy things, because their fossils, although certainly delicious, are a bit on the crunchy side even now, I have noticed.

Like this one...ckkrrrakkkkkk....brrruuuppp...gulp....
yep....crunchy.

[steveo]

[little jeremiah]

Ah, I thought it WAS crunch food.

[Domestic Church]

So Homo Erectus rises from the grave as the nemesis of PETA!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Homos had to learn how to improvise to survive back in the day...now they just buy Granola bars.

[lizma]

Yep.