Neanderthal dental DNA shows us the true paleo diet (we've got it a bit wrong)

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@LDoBe

Oh FFS, the typical Neandertal was still HUMAN. Of course there’s no such thing as a “typical paleo diet” because HUMANS EAT ANYTHING THEY CAN SQUEEZE A CALORIE OUT OF, AND SOME THINGS THEY CAN’T. VOLUNTARILY.

Holy crap. We’ve been around basically how we are for 8 million years, of course one or two dozen thousand years doesn’t change much.

The paleo diet fad is moronic, and I can’t believe people thought stereotypes and guesswork would ever be accurate.

Fuck, there’s better evidence that humans evolved on a diet of booze, than of these paleo diet fad bullshit. We are crazy well-adapted to processing alcohol. We can easily drink and get energy out of amounts of alcohol that would kill most other animals.

I like the way you think.