17. Did humans evolve to be Carnivores or Omnivores? With Miki Ben-Dor PhD
Paul Saladino MD podcast
Paul Saladino, MD
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
I've always found anthropological questions regarding human origins and hunting practices to be fascinating. Happy to have been able to talk to paleo anthropologist Miki Ben-Dor to dig into many of these issues.
Time Stamps:
9:00 Start of Podcast.
9:52 Miki's background.
16:00 Where humans come from/context of human evolution.
21:00 Homo Erectus vs. Australopithecus diet.
28:00 Change in species availability (change from hunting megafauna to smaller animals).
32:00 Humans as hypercarnivores.
35:00 Contemporary hunter gatherer groups (the Hazda).
37:50 Iron vs. stone tools.
47:30 Hunting and Human evolution.
52:00 Neanderthals as high-trophic carnivores (nitrogen studies).
58:00 Hazda diet and health.
1:02:00 Cultural symbolism of "fat"
1:10:21 Transition from primates to humans.
1:15:00 Group hunting tactics by Homo Sapiens.
1:20:50 Shrinking brain size due to onset of agriculture.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. |
| 0:10.6 | This podcast is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots |
| 0:14.7 | of chronic disease and illness. |
| 0:16.3 | In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned about how to live the most |
| 0:19.9 | healthy and radical life possible. |
| 0:22.4 | Thanks for joining me on this journey. |
| 0:26.9 | What's going on you guys? |
| 0:28.7 | I have an amazing guest this week. |
| 0:30.6 | This is my conversation with Miki Bendoor. |
| 0:33.3 | Some of you may know him. |
| 0:34.3 | He is a very well-regarded paleoanthropologist at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. |
| 0:41.8 | Paleoanthropology was actually his second career. |
| 0:44.4 | Previous to that, I believe he was an economics and finance, but became so fascinated with paleolithic |
| 0:50.8 | origins of humans where we come from from an evolutionary perspective that he went back |
| 0:55.7 | to school, got a PhD, and is now making great contributions in this space in this podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | We talk about our human evolution, what we know, the paleolithic fossil record, evidence |
| 1:09.2 | that early humans were primarily consuming meat, where we've come from, other evidence |
| 1:14.6 | in our human design that we are hunters and have always been focused on meat and animal |
| 1:20.3 | foods as the primary foods. |
| 1:22.6 | Does this sound familiar? |
| 1:24.2 | Yes, it does. |
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