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Vegans: Are They Right?

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Is Meat Really Changing Our Brains?

Some anthropologists think that meat eating meant huge changes for us, particularly our brains. A human's brain is three to four times as large as the brain of a chimpanzee. The idea is that eating more and more meat helped us to get this big brain. After we started eating meat regularly, we did gradually start doing more and more sophisticated things,. like controlling fire, setting up societies, developing language, and even making art.

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