> >> "scavenging, *not* hunting. Our review of the archaeology yields
> >> results"
> >>
> >> In the question of when and why pre-humans added meat as part of
their
>he above is a difference without a distinction. Meat
> >> was part of the diet and has continued to be so eversince.
> >
> > Some humans...
>
> Meat has been an essential part of the diet of all
> human societies, and of the vast, overwhelming majority
> of individual human beings.
>
> Humans eat meat: at all times and places.

'Gut Morphology and the Avoidance of Carrion among
Chimpanzees, Baboons, and Early Hominids
> >> In science the answers one gets is a function of the questions one
asks.
> >> Tabove does not answer the question do chimps eat meat with grea
relish,
> >> share it among themselvesunt animals, and hunt
> >> cooperatively.
> >>
> >> The above was asking about proportions of macro nutrients and
seasonal
> >> feeding habits.
> >
> > And hunting wasn't mentioned. Neither was eating insects.
>
> Because they weren't trying to answer questions about
> that. Those studies did *not* say that chimpanzees do
> not eat meat or insects.

The studies, and any study for that matter, answer the questions asked.
If one wants the literature is full of examples where the question of
meat is asked and and answered for multiple locations for chimps. You
make a tempest in a teapot.

"'It is generally accepted that modern humans evolved from some
chimpanzee-like ancestor (Pilbeam, 1996). Consequently we use our data
on the nutritional ecology of modern chimpanzees to draw conclusions
about how nutrition, and in particular, how macronutrient chemistry, may
have been

involved in human evolution. We will be discussing only the
plant component of the diet; although modern chimpanzees
are omnivorous (Teleki, 1981 [Gombe NP]), plant foods
provided the great majority of the food seen eaten by these
primates during our year-long study (ca. 99%)."

No problem, the chimp like critter and the human line departed ways 5 or
so million years ago and any examination of modern chimp dietary habits
can only speak to them and the environment in which they live.

Chimps eat meat and do so with relish, make tools specifically to humt
animals and hunt cooperativly and then share the meat among themselves.
The percent is quite irrelevant. If one wants to make something of
chimps with regard to humans and hominids in general the case swings
both ways; meat is involved and can not be denied.

You strive to swallow a camel and manage just to swallow a gnat.