From Veggies to Meat: Man-Apes become Human

[Phil153]

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Most of what we now consider to be human has resulted from the taste for meat developing in this man-ape creature.

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That's a confident statement.

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Hunting for meat requires hunting in groups, which in turn requires better communication between individuals, which in turn requires better tools and weapons, which in turn requires newer forms of social organization, all of which leads to greater intellectual sophistication.

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Are dogs smarter than horses?

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This greater intellectual sophistication has led this newly evolving species into the development of a much larger brain with the sophisticated reasoning ability of the modern human. Meat eating has made humans of us.

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Another very confident statement.

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“Man developed away from the apes precisely because he had to hunt meat; and if you want to hunt meat you cannot afford yourself the luxury of baboon behavior.”

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What about orang-utan behavior? Hyena behavior? Why are human social bonds very similar to orang-utans and very unlike hyenas?

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As a result of our carnivorous appetite we have developed non-primate social relations; we now regulate sexual behavior and develop families requiring new social harmonies.

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We do? Is the author aware that orang-utans have family structures as well? Almost identical to our own, in fact, as well as complex social behaviour. This guy loves to make confident statements.

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We now acquire our recognition from others not based upon what we take but from what we give.

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What?

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“Unlike the baboon who gluts himself only on food, man nourishes himself mostly on self-esteem

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I guess this guy needs do an anthropological study on McDonalds. When was the last time you saw a fat babboon glutting himself on food? Humans are very social, true, but so are other vegetarian apes and lemurs. I don't see the meat connection.

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We are now beginning to comprehend the fact that humans are primarily unique because wo/man is a total celebration of itself in distinctive self-expression.

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wo/man?