Kami nyobian pisan biaya pikeun terang komposisi diét ieu kuduna cocog pisan sareng kabutuhan genetik urang. Tapi moal standarisasi global tina diet modéren ngajilbabkeun raray urang? Naha leres éta ngan ukur aya hiji rezim? Paling dipikaresep henteu. Pikeun ahli purbakala, Jean-Denis Vigne, malah teu aya cangcaya. ” Paleolithic sumebar dina jaman anu lega pisan langkung ti 2 juta taun. Nanging, salami waktos ieu, iklimna benten-benten benten: anu mikirkeun periode glasiasi atanapi pemanasan! Ieu nunjukkeun yén sumberdaya pangan anu sayogi, naha tina tutuwuhan atanapi sasatoan, ogé parantos turun naek. [Salaku tambahan], teu kedah hilap yén salami periode ieu sababaraha spésiés hominid ogé nuturkeun salah sahiji anu ngagaduhan kabiasaan tuang anu béda-béda… ”

Numutkeun kana tulisan anu diterbitkeun taun 2000 dina American Journal of Clinical Nutrisi, diet anu diusulkeun ku Loren Cordain moal pakait pisan sareng naon anu didahar ku sadaya karuhun urang. Sababaraha éta, contona, langkung hérbivora tibatan karnivora, moro anu sigana didamelna ngan ukur dina populasi anu cicing di dataran luhur. Salaku tambahan, lalaki prasejarah teu ngagaduhan kabébasan pikeun milih naon anu aranjeunna tuang: aranjeunna tuang naon anu sayogi, anu jelas beda-beda jauh ti tempat ka tempat, sareng ti jaman ka jaman taun.

Panilitian Paleo-antropologis^1-9 (hatur nuhun kana spidol anu aya dina tulang atanapi enamel huntu) nunjukkeun anu luar biasa bhinéka paripolah tuang waktos, saksi kana kalenturan diwenangkeun ku organisasi. Neanderthal Éropa, contona, ngagaduhan diet khusus daging, sedengkeun Homo Sapiens, spésiés urang, tiasa tuang produk anu langkung variatif, sapertos kadaharan laut atanapi produk asal tutuwuhan gumantung kana lokalitasna. .

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