You can also read the article “First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago”. Seems the belief that farming started 10 or 12 thousand years ago is subject to question.

According to Dr. Patrick Roberts humans were cultivating plants 45,000 years ago.

Homo Erectus was cooking plants 750,000 yrs ago. No cultivation before 10,000 yrs ago. Bye!

You should update your knowledge. We’ve been cooking plants for at least 120,000 years.

Nothing was cultivated prior to 10,000 years ago. Bye!

Not rice and potatoes in the rift valley, more like kaffir potatoes and teff. Cultivated from prehistoric times. But you get the idea.

Herbivores that cook. Yes, you just described the human race. Look up “The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution”. They found evidence of humans cooking and eating starchy tubers in South Africa 120,000 years ago. You see the ability to locate dig up and cook starches as you travel across the land makes for a very reliable source of calories. While hunting parties can often come back empty handed. If you don’t understand these concepts there are many articles you may want to read. Perhaps your concept of human evolution relies on believing some long standing falsehoods.

Wow! wheat, rice and potatoes in the Rift Valley and herbivores that cook? Matt, i’ve never met anyone that’s as clueless on human evolution. You’re living in some kind of vegan dream time. It’s a bit like talking to a Jehovah Witness, They seem to have a monopoly on the truth as well. BYE!

BTW for humans get most of their calories from cooked grass seeds (wheat and rice), we eat leaves of many kinds (leafy greens are possibly the healthiest food of all), not sure where you got twigs, but anyway. We eat bark, it’s called cinnamon.

Humans specialized in digging up and cooking corms. And grinding grass seeds to make flatbreads. This strategy had it’s advantages. Potatoes can’t run and they are a reliable source of calories and vitamins. It was a niche unexploited by other animals. We ate meat from time to time, it was our junk food.

1) Humans range from 5 to 8 amylase gene copies. Making us the organisms best adapted to eating starches on the planet. Adaptations to dairy are relatively recent and centered mainly in northern Europe. It serves to make dairy less unhealthy for some but the consumption of dairy in general is highly problematic. In terms of estrogen consumption, IGF-1, saturated fat, and bovine leukemia virus laden milk. The best thing you can say about dairy is that it’s a source of calories. As you know in the past we ate, not for health, but simply to survive.
2) Herbivores consume different types of vegetation. In our case cooked starches have played a key role in our evolution as a species.
3) B12 is ubiquitous in a natural environment.
4) If food produces a net inflamitory effect it can be said to be unhealthy because it contributes to the overall burden of disease. If a food has a net anti-inflamitory effect it can be said to be healthy for the opposite reason. Just because you can derive energy and nutrients from a certain food it does not follow that that food is beneficial long term. If a food provides energy while promoting disease it is a sub-optimal or unhealthy (junk) food, and should be avoided.