Ancient human may have preferred grass

amen to this find, I think it will eventually prove that man was meant to eat sprouts and things of that nature, and did come from the sea...so we basically ate nothing like we do today..that kills us and makes us age all horribly... yay...and by grass..the grass we have today..is nothing like the grass baack then -.-....without the pesticides and completly different types, I'd stick to certain sprouts. Man is not "meant" to do anything. We have always been opportunistic animals doing what we must to make a living. Also, the average human lifespan is much longer, adjusted for body size, than m... [More]

It would be great to be able to eat grass, it would cut down on the grocery bill and make mowing the lawn more meaningful I don't think that humans have the enzymes to break down the cellulose. Must have lost that during evolution. Perhaps they were like geese. Geese are inefficient at digesting grasses but they pass it through their bodies in such quantities that they get enough nutrition.

Perhaps they were like geese. Geese are inefficient at digesting grasses but they pass it through their bodies in such quantities that they get enough nutrition. Can you imagine eating grass and passing grass constantly? Not very efficient nor pleasant to visualize

amen to this find, I think it will eventually prove that man was meant to eat sprouts and things of that nature, and did come from the sea...so we basically ate nothing like we do today..that kills us and makes us age all horribly... yay...and by grass..the grass we have today..is nothing like the grass baack then -.-....without the pesticides and completly different types, I'd stick to certain sprouts. Do you not think we'd have evolved into cows on a grass only diet? we age well and our life span grows longer with each generation, vegetarians without laboratories are the only humans who woul... [More]

Can you imagine eating grass and passing grass constantly? Not very efficient nor pleasant to visualize I have seen the result in northern Minneapolis suburbs when there's lots of grass near wetland and many geese can be seen calmly grazing on lawns. Walking on sidewalks can be challenging at times. I've also seen geese leap into the air and fly almost straight up to the thirty-foot roof of a building. That must take a great amount of strength for such big birds. Whatever they're eating, it's working for them. By the way, I once saw a gosling at the "tennis ball with legs" stage tugging on a b... [More]

You just know that evangelising vegetarians will use this as 'proof' that we should all be grass munchers.. Just what I was thinking.

This made me think of the time I read an article about how the appendix helped digest grass. I don't know when i read it because im a drunk.

I'm guessing P. bosei probably had special gut bacteria to help him digest the grass? And maybe the bacteria went extinct along with the ape at the end... But still, its possible that they spent most of their time grazing... This kind of discovery always leaves me imagining stuff, in this case the group of hominids crouching and eating grass while others remain standing, looking around for leopards and Dinofelis and waiting for their turn to graze. Kinda like meerkats, only vegetarian :

or their appendix did its job

Recombinant scientists should copy the enzyme or bacteria that cows have to digest grass and voila...