Is man a carnivore.

[BGoodForGoodSake]

No I am not, in fact it seems that the bear demonstrates that behavior is not tied to anatomy.

So if they could not digest fruit or vegetables they still would?

They seem to be built from a carniverous framework yet they are able to digest fruits and other vegetation.
Why?

The Genesis account says that all animals were herbivores before the fall. Perhaps they still have some ability to do that left. Don't know.

Why do some retain it while others do not?
Why did some become carniverous and other not?

[Jbuza]

gone

[sandy_mcd]

By Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Of all animals that include meat in their diet, man is the only animal that is unable to break down uric acid to allantoin.
http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles ... rotein.htm

Birds excrete uric acid:
The uric acid in pigeon feces is highly corrosive and can cause extensive damage to metals and other substrates it sits on for long periods. http://www.birdbusters.com/pigeon_control.html

Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds

By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS
Associated Press Writer
Published January 12, 2006, 12:27 PM CST

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds.

"These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared," Lee Berger, a paleo-anthropologist at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand, said as he presented his conclusions about a mystery that has been debated since the remains of the possible human ancestor known as the Taung child were discovered in 1924.

The Taung child's discovery led to the search for human origins in Africa, instead of in Asia or Europe as once theorized. Researchers regard the fossil of the ape-man, or australopethicus africanus, as evidence of the "missing link" in human evolution.

Researchers had speculated the Taung child was killed by a leopard or saber-toothed feline. But 10 years ago, Berger and fellow researcher Ron Clarke submitted the theory the hunter was a large predatory bird, based on the fact most of the other fossils found at the same site were small monkeys that showed signs of having been killed by a predatory bird.

Berger and Clarke had until now been unable to show damage on the child's skull that could have been done by a bird.

Five months ago, Berger read an Ohio State University study of the hunting abilities of modern eagles in West Africa believed similar to predatory birds of the Taung child's era.

The Ohio State study determined that eagles would swoop down, pierce monkey skulls with their thumb-like back talons, then hover while their prey died before returning to tear at the skull. Examination of thousands of monkey remains produced a pattern of damage done by birds, including holes and ragged cuts in the shallow bones behind the eye sockets.

Berger went back to the Taung skull, and found traces of the ragged cuts behind the eye sockets. He said none of the researchers who had for decades been debating how the child died had noticed the eye socket damage before.

Berger concluded man's ancestors had to survive not just being hunted from the ground, but from the air. Such discoveries are "key to understanding why we humans today view the world they way we do," he said.

Berger's research has been reviewed by others and is due to appear in the February edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technolog ... i-news-hed

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