Food for Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter
“Plato said if we were regular animals, you know, we wouldn’t have time to write poetry,” Richard Wrangham, Harvard anthropologist, jokes. “You know, he was right.”
New work is being done to illuminate yet another benefit to an omnivorous diet: once humans turned to eating meat, we were given a more efficient source of fuel, enabling more energy to be dedicated to brain function, thus catalyzing our evolution. Wrangham, a vegetarian, even goes so far as to say that a raw-foods based diet is a step backward.
