Evolution and vegetarianism

Chalk one up for the meat-eaters

Do you love the way your smallish jaws complement the outlines of your face? Are you are a vegetarian and yet love those yummy chocolates and yoghurt/ice-cream smoothies? You better thank your meat-eating neighbor and the boat-load of ancestors that have preceded us on this planet earth.

National Geographic News reports that new research - published by scientists
at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington, D.C - suggests that eating meat and high fat foods contributed to the evolution of the petit-body small jawed creatures that we are, today. And, the increased cholesterol/fat content of the foods consumed, caused changes in the body that led to better assimilation/processing of these foods.Brought on by survival instincts, meat-eating triggered the evolutionary changes that helped us survive relatively high fat diets, something that would've easily taken out the great apes.

Intelligent folks, our ancestors, what with their evolving tool and fire use - a cooked potato apparently causes about 80% less stress on our teeth.

Apparently though, someone forgot to tell the teeth to shape up and size down, proportionately with respect to our jaws. Our troubles. Dentists fortune.