Would you want to spend the majority of your day burning energy and looking for plant foods that only yield small amounts of caloric return?
Probably not! Plant foods do not have a high concentration of energy, so spending all day looking for these foods (specifically looking for the ones that won’t kill us) just doesn’t make much sense. I’d rather go hunt and get one solid kill that will feed the tribe and I for days on end.
And unlike other primates, we only spend about an hour per day eating. Chimps spend over 13 hours a day eating! There is…
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