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Carnivorous animals have atrophied, inactive sweat glands, while man and herbivorous animals possess?

well-developed sweat glands. Does this prove (1) that man is not by nature physically built to consume meat without injurious consequences involving, among others, urea and uric acid precipitation? (2) that the herbivora must have preceded the carnivora in point of time? and (3) that the carnivora originated from the herbivora, changing physiologically due to limitations in their natural food supply?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Apes are omnivorous

    Non human apes eat fruits, grass seeds and small animals.

    If gorilla only eat some insects like ants and termites, all other apes are hunter/scavenger.

    Human has basically the same diet, but he cooks. Cooking allows a better digestion of some roots.

    An omnivorous species can adapt easily to various climates. During last Ice age, our European ancestors diet was over 80 % carnivorous (almost 100 % for Neanderthal), while Africans used the first proven millstones.

    Since Neolithic omnivorous human diet become more and more herbivorous because of overpopulation and depletion of resources.

    PS

    Was this supposed to be a pro-vegan argument?

    Nice try!...

  • 1 decade ago

    i dont really see any link between the two. if anything sweat glands are an adaptation for hunting. sweating combined with our realative hairlessness make us very good at evaportive cooling. some anthropologist suggest that humans evolved to be persistance hunters- basically to run down animals during the hotest part of the day as many traditional cultures still do today. although humans are by no means fast, we have great endurance for apes, and this along with our bipedal posture ( the mid-day sun only strikes the top of our heads and shoulders), sweat glands, hairlessness, and ability to carry water with us makes us able to run animals down to exhaustion. undoubtably we came from a vegetarian ape ancestor, we developed meat eating to gain acess to a wider range of foods.

    also i think that the ability to sweat to cool down is unusual even amongst herbivores, the only one i can think of that visible sweats are horses (althought there could be others-i dont know), maybe sweating in humans and horses is simply a matter of convergent evolution

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Having little or no body hair enabled humans to chase herbivores far longer than lions or leopards could ever hope to. Cheetahs, when they're chasing gazelles, are quickly exhausted. Humans, with their sweat glands and lack of hair, can stay cool far longer than the cheetah or the gazelle. They can wear out the gazelle - by chasing it to point it overheats and just drops from exhaustion. Human beings can run far longer distances than almost any other animal - this gave early humans a huge advantage in HUNTING. Meat gives this advantage - it hold far more calories than vegetation.

    Thus, it would have been to early human survival advantage to engage in hunting.

    Marathoners and triathletes abilities prove my point.

    Your other two points aren't necessarily true either.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no... On the other hand, man does not have the capability to pant to cool themselves like other carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores.

    If you do not like to eat meat, it is fine with me. Less consumption of meat will reduce the demand for meat and that should to lower the price of meat for me.

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    6 years ago

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