Meat-Eating and Human Evolution edited by Craig Stanford and Henry Bunn,
Oxford University Press, £55, ISBN 0195131398
MEAT-EATING maketh man? Of all our relatives among the monkeys and apes, we
humans eat the most meat. It forms between 20 and 50 per cent of our diet, while
our cousins are predominantly veggies. Common chimps are one of the few
relatives who also like the odd steak tartare, but it’s only a tiny part of
their diet—about 5 per cent. Because we share a common ancestor with them,
it is likely that an ancient relative, living around 6 million years…
