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180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-don't-eat-greens-food-eats-greens dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Early humans were able to move from Africa after a single genetic mutation allowed them to become vegetarians, scientists claim. The switch, which allowed humans to process vegetables, meant that humans were able to move away from water sources and spread across the continent. A team of geneticists compared DNA sequences from a variety of people around the world to see how different populations relate to one another and when they have gone their separate ways. The scientists found that a key genetic variant gave humans the ability to convert fats from plants into essential nutrients for the brain."

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  1. Wait a sec.... by macbeth66 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought that all of creation was a mere 6,000 years old. Or so. Oh my, I guess a lot of Anthropology and Geology books will have to be re-written.

  2. Just Keep Pulling Shit From Your Asses. by zenlessyank · · Score: -1, Troll

    Every month it is more crap to blow out to the masses every time your fundamental evolutionary rules change. It's like watching a liar on trial and seeing him change his story as the judge rolls out the evidence. Until someone can show me how to make atoms out of dead empty space, you need to just accept the fact that there is a Creator, and you owe Him the decency to not insult Him by claiming we just popped out of thin air, or this thing or that thing happened because of some random event. I cannot wait to see the looks on your faces when Judgement Day arrives. Now go love thy brother as yourselves and forgive. PS. For those of you who demand a little more logic then ponder this one. We have an almost nu-numberable amount of life here on our little rock we call Earth. If any Life WAS out there and it was only even 10 minutes earlier in its (evolutionary)life stage, then we would have found it and/or it found us since we have been sending out hardware for 60 years. O yea. THE FUCKING MONKEYS ARE STILL HERE THAT WE SUPPOSEDLY EVOLVED FROM

  3. Re:Vegetarian? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you're a vegan, I hope for your own sake that you take various (artificially produced) supplements - there's no way to obtain all the necessary nutrients from a purely vegan diet if it's purely natural.

    Ovo-lacto vegetarians, now, they can get away with it.