Rico's rants: Sorry Vegans: Here’s How Meat-Eating Made Us Human

11 March 2016

Unknown said...: http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2015/08/10/starchy-carbs--not-a-paleo-diet--advanced-the-human-race.html

New research suggests Palaeolithic humans would not have evolved on today's 'Paleo' diet. Starchy carbohydrates were a major factor in the evolution of the human brain, according to a new study.

- the high glucose demands required for the development of modern humans’ large brains would not have been met on a low carbohydrate diet

- Cooking starchy foods was central to the dietary change that triggered and sustained the growth of the human brain

- evidence in salivary amylase genes, which increase the amount of salivary enzymes produced to digest starch. While modern humans have on average six copies of salivary amylase genes, other primates have only an average of two.; 20.6.17