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Neanderthals Ate More Plants, the Carbs Helped Grow Their Brains

The next time you re sitting next to a caveman at dinner who says: Human beings were made to eat meat, you can tell him, Actually, Neanderthals ate 70 percent of their diet from plants, and that s what helped their brains grow larger, doubling in size from 2 million to 700 000 years ago. Implication: If anyone wants to stay pea-brained, eat more meat. The fact that Neanderthals ate more carbs, from plants, and that was led to their brains enlarging and their ultimate ability to expand their world–and presumably mate, intermingle with Sapiens and survive– is the finding of a new study that examined the fossilized bacteria found in the remains of ancient beings that walked the planet 400,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains May. 10, 2021 , 3:00 PM Here’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as brutish meat eaters: A new study of bacteria collected from Neanderthal teeth shows that our close cousins ate so many roots, nuts, or other starchy foods that they dramatically altered the type of bacteria in their mouths. The finding suggests our ancestors had adapted to eating lots of starch by at least 600,000 years ago about the same time as they needed more sugars to fuel a big expansion of their brains. The study is “groundbreaking,” says Harvard University evolutionary biologist Rachel Carmody, who was not part of the research. The work suggests the ancestors of both humans and Neanderthals were cooking lots of starchy foods at least 600,000 years ago. And they had already adapted to eating more starchy plants long before the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago, she says.

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