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Alright we have a special episode today. We're lucky to hear all about Miki's new paper looking at the complete story of our dietary past and humans being high-trophic level carnivores. He gave me a sneak peak at this awesome 40 page paper he's submitting for review.

Miki Ben-Dor got an undergraduate and masters degree in economics and then went back to school later in life to study paleoanthropology. He's now Post doctoral fellow at the department of archeology of Tel Aviv University.

You can find some great presentations on youtube and his paper "Man the Fat Hunter" published in 2011.

Love the work he's done - he's hit it from all angles and it all lines up. We ate meat for all of human history. Ok here's a bit of business to take care of - Let's see how concise we can make this. Get your own grass finished meat at Nose to tail.org. Support the show on Patreon at patreon.com / peak human. Preorder the film at FoodLies.org. Watch highlights from the film on the Food Lies youtube. Get daily content on the Food Lies instagram, twitter, and facebook. SIgn up for the newsletter on Sapien.org. Get on the waiting list if your a health coach, doctor, or other healthcare practitioner at sapien.org. I think there's too many things at this point. Maybe just pick 1 of these and go for it.

I really appreciate it. At this point we're a community powered company. We're scrambling around here at SAPIEN trying to make this all happen without outside money or influence. Really love this tribe. We can't go back to the glory days thrusting spears at wooly mammoth and gorging on fatty meat, but we can still try to bring the community together and spread the word and focus on our own health and people around us. Now let's hear from Miki Ben-Dor

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SHOW NOTES

• Miki completed his undergrad and masters in economics and switched later in life into paleo anthropology
• His research is largely focused on the reconstruction of the human diet and the relationship between plant vs animal foods and the proportion of each as far back as 2 million years ago
• If we want to understand human evolution we have to go much further back than just modern hunter gatherers
• Gut morphology similar to carnivores
• When we compare humans to chimpanzees, Miki has calculated that to be 77% smaller colon and about 6