Secular Café: Take that! You vegans!

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Take that! You vegans! Apr 20th 2012, 17:20 :D Quote: Eating Meat was Key to Human Evolution, Scientists Say Published April 19, 2012 Eating meat was the key to expanding the human race because the "higher quality" diet of early carnivorous females allowed them to stop breastfeeding earlier and produce more children, according to Swedish scientists. The offspring of all species stop breastfeeding when their brain reaches a particular developmental stage, and in carnivores this point is reached much faster than herbivores or omnivores. Studies of natural fertility societies -- where birth control is not used -- found the average duration of breastfeeding is two years and four months, compared to four to five years for chimpanzees, our closest relatives. Previous studies have suggested that carnivores wean earlier than herbivores and omnivores because of differences in social or behavioral patterns, but researchers from Lund University believe that meat-eating is the key. .... http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/hea...cientists-say/

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