Anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology

The association between human evolution and the food is an important relationship. Neanderthal hominids, lived in Europe and the Middle East for more than 150 thousand years, often facing extremely cold climates. Given this situation, the availability of food was scarce, their physique, much stronger than ours, and their big brains, indicate that they must have high-calorie diets, with generous portions of food of animal origin. In fact, they were great hunters of mammoths and other delicacies of that sort. Some estimates indicate that Neanderthals ate about 4000 calories per day in comparison.

The food that helped human evolution, is that today we are generating most of the diseases. We are the result of a long evolutionary process. Humanity as a genre has existed for about 4,000,000 years, during which they were giving developmental and environmental conditions that led to our present humanity. With respect to how it appears humans, the most accepted hypothesis is that states that the early hominids were very ape-like arboreal, but they began to walk upright.

Apparently, the dietary change that made ??proto incorporate meat into their menu is integral to its evolution as bipedalism and brain growth. Moreover, probably would not have been possible such changes without the caloric food of animal origin. The addition of meat, which occurred more than 2 million years ago, created one of the other branches that took the man and took him away from his cousins' ??hominids. Hunting increased the variety of the diet of Paleolithic humans, which forced him to create tools, language, and an organized society, which in turn allowed them to create a culture.

Due to drastic climate changes on forests and grasslands of Africa, where food and shelter became scarce, our ancestors began to star in an evolutionary revolution: little by little, some of them were adopting a more upright posture, and turn out on the adventure of walking on two legs: the hominids who stood in the bush for food and were more selective pressure of the large predators was left alive who could escape more quickly.

In these times was the hominid predator prey. They have found traces of them in bird nests in caves, etc. All these changes left the pair of power change for more protein and slow growth of the brain, which was closely related to the appearance of the first stone tools and shy glimpses of social behavior. That's how some part of the hominids were progressing in their development than other species that remained in the evolutionary path. These new creatures needed more calories and protein to meet the growing requirements of their brains. To get them, they had to travel farther, adding high-calorie foods to their diets, and then the meat and other foods of animal origin were added to the menu of mankind. At first, that food decisive shift forced by the same rules of natural selection was led by Homo Erectus, but then pointed out, in more modern species such as Neanderthals and ...