Our twin variety, the Neanderthals, lived on meat alone. Like jackals and wolves. The human stomach has a pH of 2 and can digest rotting meat like other scavengers, say vultures. Even the sapiens variety prefers meat to vegetables.
Everywhere humans moved, game and large-bodied animals on land or in the sea worth hunting, soon disappeared. They were exterminated. Nothing can survive where there are humans. They are everywhere.
Humans are naked and defenseless and have no big teeth or strong paws. Cannot outrun or overpower any animal. Humans hunt in groups like wolves, but they are less disciplined. It was this absolute inferiority that forced famished humans to develop artificial weapons, and about ten thousand years ago, when they had finished all game, to eat undigestible grasses like teosinte and Triticum and then cultivate them. But humans did not turn into peaceful ruminants. The latest development is the settling of Mars. Already two tribes are exploring and mapping it. Anything out there must see itself as doomed.
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