Question: Laurie, on your website you suggest that human physiology
implies that we are more strongly frugivorous than the other ape species
and offer the evidence from a book labeled "Seeds of frugivory" which
states that a trait amongst more severe adaptations to fruit-eating is the
longer small intestine and rapid through-put times. This in addition to
ac***ulated understanding of chemistry and chemical reactions and how they
work, etc. (e.g. increased concentrations, greater surface area, higher
temperatures promoting quicker reactions, etc) leads you to conclude,
probably quite correctly, that humans are a highly frugivorous animal by
"design", "evolutionary chance", "alien intervention", something else.
Now on to my actual point. Your personal conclusion is that humans are
essentially a fruitarian species? Am i misrepresenting you here or is this
indeed correct? If so, how did you arrive upon this conclusion? I dont
personally believe that a more highly frugivorous physiology is
axiomatically congruent with the assumption(?) that humans are
fruitarians. More that we are self-evidently highly frugivorous and leave
it at that.
Surely to ascertain if this was indeed so, one would need to measure the
nutritional composition of, preferably, high quality wild fruits and tally
this up with our accurately established biologically programmed
nutritional requirements (which no-one actually knows!) and then see if
they converged? With any gaps filled in in a most biologically appropriate
way, which for me is young leaf tips and/or succulent vegetables. This
would only leave the b-12 conundrum unaccounted for.
Is your bias against leafy material due to a personal distain for all
things green?!
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