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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. ....

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