{"id":947,"date":"2013-06-24T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:06:13","slug":"more-ancestral-diet-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/24\/more-ancestral-diet-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ancestral Diet Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a large shift\tin our ancestors diet about 3.5\tmillion\tyears ago to food derived from grasses and\/or sedges. This has potentially important implications for what diet we&#8217;re adapted to. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/unews.utah.edu\/news_releases\/a-grassy-trend-in-human-ancestors-diets\/\">the evidence<\/a> isn&#8217;t specific enough to be very useful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The isotope method cannot distinguish what parts of grasses and sedges human ancestors ate \u2013 leaves, stems, seeds and-or underground storage organs such as roots or rhizomes. The method also can\u2019t determine when human ancestors began getting much of their grass by eating grass-eating insects or meat from grazing animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a large shift in our ancestors diet about 3.5 million years ago to food derived from grasses and\/or sedges. This has potentially important implications for what diet we&#8217;re adapted to. Unfortunately, the evidence isn&#8217;t specific enough to be very useful: The isotope method cannot distinguish what parts of grasses and sedges human ancestors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[108,125],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diet","tag-paleo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-fh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}