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NPR Morning Edition: We Evolved to Eat Meat

Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition, here's an excerpt from the write-up:

But Durant says it's a meat-based diet that was fundamental to early human development.

My colleague Chris Joyce has reported on how a meat-based diet helped make us smarter.

And paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisonsin, Madison agrees. "We definitely evolved to eat meat."

"When we look at the fossils of early homo (sapien) we see this immediate increase in the size of the body and also increase in the size of the brain," Hawks explains.

Here's the story with the full 7-minute audio.

You can almost hear the cognitive dissonance: NPR's audience tends to believe in evolution, yet is also full of people ideologically set against meat. Solution? Make me sound like a meat-crazed carnivore who is only healthy despite eating meat. I'll post some additional commentary a bit later.

Anyhow, it was a fun piece and many thanks to NPR.

NYC caveman shuns modernity, loves football

I like this guy's style:

Perhaps one of the most unusual, yet knowledgeable, of fans lives outdoors at the very tip of northern Manhattan and has become a bit of a folk legend. That fan would be Sabas, who is known as the Cave Man of Inwood Hill Park.

Sabas, 79, who has lived outdoors for years, extols the virtues of shunning the diversions of complicated modernity — but when it comes to football, that is a different story.

“Of course I’ll watch the L.S.U.-Alabama game Monday night – I wouldn’t miss that,” he told me on Saturday when I ran into him in the park. 

Full post here.  Thanks to Lee Rawlings for the link.

It's true, I'm a caveman

Modern science has confirmed what all of us already knew: I'm a caveman.

23andme just added the ability to check how much Neanderthal DNA you've got.  Here are my public results.  2.8% of my DNA is from Neanderthals -- and yes, that's in the 80th percentile.

Can you imagine how devastating it would have been to learn that I didn't have much Neanderthal in me?  In my line of work?

Calvin and Hobbes on being a caveman

I had a similar moment when I told my mom that I was "going pro".  

Thanks to Enrique for the link.

ABC Nightline features the Paleo Diet

Okay, here's the ABC Nightline article, and below is the piece.  It actually wasn't bad.  I loved Art's line about "What's a bagel?". 

If you're new to the site and would like to learn more, here's the basic concept:

So if you want to be healthy, this is what you have to do:

  • Eat the types of foods humans evolved to eat in the wild
  • Mimic key aspects of life in the wild: sleep, sun, moving, walking, and social contact

Follow this advice and most of your health problems will melt away.  Here's a good way to get started.  To stay on the cutting edge, you can do a few things:

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