RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

> I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart
> failure from a fossil.

Heart problems show up in the bones due to poor circulation of nutrients. There has been a few fossils found with some evidence, but not very many. Since they ate more wild meat, their diet had a lot less fat in it than ours does today. Today people eat mostly domestic animals and they have a lot more fat than wild animals do. Plus hunting food in the wild tends to be a bit more aerobic than getting it from a grocery store.

> One of the problems is that the
> cavemen and cavewomen didn't live long enough for some of the
> "modern" diseases to afflict them.

Actually there is some evidence that 100 year old people were more common to them than they are today, but they still struggled. Our business rule today of eat or be eaten had a different twist on it back then.

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