From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 09:23:57 MDT
Barbara:
Some articles by Loren Cordain Ph.D may be found at
http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/paleodiet/index.shtml
Below is an excerpt of his article titled
"Metabolic Evidence of Human Adaptation to Increased Carnivory"
He states that the mode plant/animal subsistence ratio for HG cultures is
16%-25% from plants and 65%-74% from animals. I'm sure you'll agree that
65%-74% is a very large percentage by anyone's standards. -gts
"Our laboratory has recently compiled the plant/animal-food subsistence
ratio data in the Ethnographic Atlas [Murdock 1967] for all worldwide
hunter-gatherer populations which have been studied either historically or
by contemporary anthropologists. The analysis shows that in the majority
(61.3%) of worldwide hunter-gatherers, gathered plant food represents 35% or
less of the total food utilized. Only 2.2% of the world's hunter-gatherers
derive 66% or more of their total foods from plants. Further, not a single
hunter-gather population derives 86% or more of its total calories from
plant foods.
The most frequently occurring (mode) plant/animal subsistence ratio for
worldwide hunter-gatherers is 16-25% plant/75-84% animal, and the median
value is 26-35% plant/65-74% animal. These values corroborate five careful
modern studies of hunter-gatherers showing a mean energy (caloric) intake
from animal-food sources to be 59% [Leonard et al. 1994]."
http://www.beyondveg.com/cordain-l/metab-carn/metabolic-carnivory-1a.shtml
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