Jul
01
2009
Safe food and Evolution
Posted by Andrew Routledge in Food Microorganisms, Miscellaneous, food decay, food hygiene, food spoilage, hunting, tags: Africa, alternative food sources, asiatic lion, begging, black backed jackal, bone marrow, browser, bush, calorie diet, canine, carcass, carnivores, chimpanzees, den, environmental control, evolution, fear of man, femur, fight or flight response, flint, food hygiene, forest, gorillas, hands, human evolution, minds eye, monkeys, pecking order, pelvis, pincer motion, primates, quarry, safe food, scavenger, termites, thumbs, uncontaminated food, upright posture, vegetarian diet, vultures, waderIn nature food and water are the main driving force that motivate all living organisms. When food is freshly available animals invest little thought into the whereabouts of alternative food sources but when food becomes scarce or inferior in quality, animals have an amazingly strong and instinctive drive to find new and fresh food sources. The following article intends to portray how the search for nutrtious and uncontaminated food determined the evolutionary course of the primate that eventually became who we are today.
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