Food Chain Radio Show #1219

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

Human Evolution

Eating Up to a Big Brain!

Guest: Smithsonian Paleoanthropologist Dr. Briana Pobiner

When it comes to having a discussion of what is best to eat, we often sound like a bunch of hyenas fighting over the carcass of an antelope.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Eating Up to a Big Brain! What did we eat back then that made us so smart today?

Some insist we must avoid eating industrial foods and only eat foods that have been certified organic under the direct supervision of the federal government. Then others will say we should avoid eating saturated fats and eat only foods from packages labeled, “low fat.” And then there are those who insist we should stop eating the flesh of animals and only eat plants and the derivatives of plants, like that Impossible Burger.

However, for this discussion, we are going to set aside our dietary squabbles about what we should eat, and go back, way back, to solve a mystery about what we did eat way back when that enabled human evolution to grow the big beautiful brains we now have that make us so smart.

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Tune in here, for the syndicated the Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1219 February 29, 2020 Saturday 9AM Pacific

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