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Humans do not have carnivorous teeth - not like other carnivorous animals such as cats and dogs. Our couple of teeth that are slightly pointy were, in my opinion, designed to crack nuts and things like that, primordially.
Well...yes and no.
Certainly we have canines, but those aren't meant to crack nuts; that's the job of our molars, IIRC, so it's perfectly natural to assume there was some meat in our ancestors' diets (Then again, gorillas, which are mostly vegetarian, have ginormous canines nonetheless). But we definitely need fruits and veggies in our diet as well. So, you could say that we're, oh, I dunno, omnivorous?
Well...yes and no.
Certainly we have canines, but those aren't meant to crack nuts; that's the job of our molars, IIRC, so it's perfectly natural to assume there was some meat in our ancestors' diets (Then again, gorillas, which are mostly vegetarian, have ginormous canines nonetheless). But we definitely need fruits and veggies in our diet as well. So, you could say that we're, oh, I dunno, omnivorous?
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