Vegetarian cavemen died off while meat-eaters survived, according to scientists

Animal rights activists may be uncomfortable with it, but new research shows that a vegetarian branch of humans died off long ago, while their meat-eating brethren lived on and thrived.

That is the conclusion of a recently published study in the journal Nature by a team of researchers from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the Universite de Toulouse Paul Sabatier, who found that the pre-human species of vegan-eating man known as "Paranthropus robustus" disappeared from the human family tree.

Researchers said that species "relied more on plant-based foodstuffs," while the species that evolved into today's modern Homo Sapiens beginning about a hundred centuries years ago did not.

Using a laser to determine the ratios of isotopes of different elements in tooth enamel found in the early skeletal remains, the scientists were able to identify "diet and habitat changes," according to the journal.

The research concluded that the largely vegetarian species died out while the less diet-restricted "Australopithecus africanus" peoples, which developed human-like facial features and a human-sized brain cavity, continued to evolve.

"In terms of diet, it has been suggested that early Homo was a generalist but that Paranthropus was a specialist," the team, led by Prof. Vincent Balter, wrote... NaturalNews