Mar. 4, 2005. 07:08 AM

Sink your teeth into dietary evolution
Our ancestors ate as chimps do now
Cooking, cutting changed dentition

PETER CALAMAI
SCIENCE WRITER

"WASHINGTONâ??Low-carb proponents say their diet is healthier because it's
close to what our early ancestors ate. Vegetarians make similar claims.
Neither
is entirely right, according to current science.

"The common ancestor of all hominids was probably eating the same as modern
chimps," says renowned paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood.
And that means lots of fruit year-round (heavy on the wild figs) and
averaging about 65 grams of meat a day, mostly from pigs and monkeys.
Wood's verdict came at the end of a symposium on the origin and evolution
of
the modern human diet here at the recent annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science."

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