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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this an argument that humans did not evolve to eat meat? Because those teeth... Well let's just say the teeth shown aren't what you expect from an herbivore now, is it? Put those on a cow and they would look just as strange.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's just mocking the people who claim humans have to eat meat, because evolution/god/whatever gave us teeth to chew meat.

It is correct that our teeth do allow chewing meat (since we are omnivores), but yeah, taking the teeth as basis for any argumentation, that's just ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As the only basis, maybe. But they can be an indicator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They can be an indicator whether we might be carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. But the actual digestion is what counts. And particularly, the categorization into "omnivore" leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Some omnivores might genuinely need to eat both categories. We happen to not need that.