Food Chain Radio Show #1131

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

Human Evolution

Chewing Our Way to Today

Guest: Peter S. Ungar PhD Paleoanthropologist & Author of Evolution’s Bite University of Arkansas

How did teeth help make us human?

200 million years ago, give or take, we began developing the kinds of teeth it would take to chew our way to today.

That chewing began, we are told by Professor Peter Ungar, when mammals developed molars which provided for the critical chewing, crushing teeth that opened a whole world of eating possibilities for our ancestors.

But wait, just how do scientists like Dr. Ungar know what happened 200 million years ago?

That is part of the story, as we journey back– way back– to the beginnings of our journey from mammal to hominid to humans with all the tools of modern science to help separate fact from fiction.

And by the way, did cave men and women eat a paleo diet, or did they eat whatever they could catch?

Leave a comment below: Did cavemen eat paleo, or did they eat anything?

Tune in here, for the syndicated the Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1131 December 9, 2017 Saturday 9AM Pacific

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