Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by koverda on Sunday April 07, 2019 @08:03PM
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Wouldn't other animals with strong bites be capable of crushing bones to eat the marrow inside? The theory is big on assumptions, but I guess that's how it goes when you're trying to figure out what happened millions of years ago.
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Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by code_duck on Sunday April 07, 2019 @08:25PM
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Some animals like snakes simply swallow prey whole. Dogs and pigs are known for eating hastily with minimal chewing, and I'd imagine many other predators are the same. No idea how efficiently their respective digestive systems extract nutrients from solid mammal chunks.
Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by lustysocietyorg on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:16AM
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> Dogs and pigs are known for eating hastily with minimal chewing,
Because they have no or smaller cheeks. But they have very acid stomachs.
The Comparative Anatomy of Eating
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/the-comparative-anatom...
Omnivore or Herbivore?
https://livinontheveg.com/omnivore-or-herbivore/
Milton Mills, MD: Are Humans Designed to Eat Meat?
Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by darkpuma on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:16AM
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I was under the impression that it had more to do with lips than jaws. Hyenas can outbite humans a thousand times over, but they can't drink a milkshake through a straw!
In other words, breaking bones is the easy part; sucking out the marrow is the tricky bit.
Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by bitwize on Sunday April 07, 2019 @08:22PM
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One of the reasons why dogs gnaw on bones is to get at the marrow inside.
Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by pm on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:24AM
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Hyenas are known to eat bone. The bearded vulture is the only known bird that eats bone marrow, and cracks open bones by dropping them on rocks from a great height.
Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
by pvg on Sunday April 07, 2019 @08:13PM
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The article talks about primates but there are similar theories about other brain-and-marrow gastronomes.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/inside-the-brai...