how did early ancestors satisfy their nutritional need for sweets?
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Sugar, although a good source of quick energy, is not a nutritional need for humans.\n\nHowever, many plants create sugars for their own use, and by eating those plants could early man have ingested sugar.\n\nTree sap is a resin (not sweet- even in sugar maples averages 2% sugar).  It would more likely have pulled their teeth out or cemented their mouths shut than made for good chewing.  Maple syrup wasn't made until the 1600's.  Gum is a latex derivative (not sweet), which WAS harnessed by ancient man, but by south american indians, and to make durable footwear, not for eating.  It runs in different channels in the tree and is completely chemically different than sap.
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there may have been other things on them long before humans.  There mat be things on them ling after humans.
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they showed them how to trap and hunt for food and how to make clothing from the hides of animals that they killed, basically they taught them how to survive in the new America. with out the things they were used to in England, this new world was very harsh.  the Indians taught the settlers how to gather food like berries and nuts and showed them the plants that were good to eat. they taught them to make kayaks to navigate the rivers and streams.
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how abot chocolate or something sweet. (tooth fairys can give sweet stuff)
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well if they have a phycological need to eat then they should do it with healthy foods instead of junk
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I think that early man (cavemen) had about as much hygiene as monkeys.  They were constantly on the move looking for anything to eat and not be eaten.  Life was very short and I don't think it was for some thousands of years before anything like hygiene was considered.  They didn't shave, bathe, wipe, have tissues to blow noses, etc.  They most likely had lots of skin problems including lice, ticks, and other parasites.  Not too glamorous.
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In the middle ages, people had to grow their own food. If they didn't, then they would die of starvation. The reason why they'd die of starvation is because they didn't have a lot of things that we have today like refrigerators, freezers or ice coolers. If something was bad then they would just add a lot of spice to it.\n\nAn everyday person like you and me would eat dark bread made from wheat that was mixed with rye or oatmeal, garden vegetables and meat (mostly pork).\n\nA nobel, with all of his guests, would eat cooked meat, fish, roast swan, peacocks and spicy dishes. The lord was always served first.\n\nOne of the recipes they had in the 5th century was called Pudding of Porpoise. You would take the blood and fat of a porpoise and then mix it with oatmeal, salt, pepper and ginger. Then you would put the mix into the gut of the porpoise and let it cook. And then it would be time to eat. Yummy, huh?
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according to hinduism , jainism and buddhism every living being has a soul. even trees have it because they are evolving living beings. even botasnist do claim that the plants can feel !. so neanderthals had a soul. just because they may not have same beliefs as us it would be wrong to say that they did not have a soul.
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Probably as soon as we started the rites for people that died.  Life back then probably seemed rather random and capricious.  There wasn't much that was known about the world, so people clung to things like ancestor worship and sun worship to try to gain some control over the randomness of life.
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Well, Presently no functions are established. The theories about its unctions are there. It is said that it was functional once when human skills regarding obtaining food were primitive and they have to consume only vegitaton for food. The cellulose contained in this vegitation is not normally digested but when the apendex was functional its role was for digestion of cellulose and other such complex substance. With improvement in Food skills the cellulose part decreased and now we don't consumed scrub and natural selection eliminated the genes or they went dormant as 97% DNA is without known function.
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This is a tricky question. You really need to talk to a nutritionist because everyone has different needs.
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Brace yourself - this is long, but hopefully worth your time. Here goes---> During the 10 million years humans were living as nomads, there was no concept of locking up food... food grew and walked around outside, and people went out when they were hungry and killed something or picked something and ate it. There was always farming, because they recognized that fruit came from seeds - and it does not take a genius to think to poke a few seeds into the dirt so there would be more of the plants they liked best when the tribe came back that way again. But then there were a few people who wanted more of the favored foods than they had before, and they invested more time in farming. And then there were those who wanted still more, and still more. Those few tribes became settled in the area of the Fertile Crescent and farmed like crazy. They consequently wound up with a surplus of food, which led to a boom in population (that's a no-brainer). And when some said that it was silly to keep working in light of this surplus of tasty eats, it was pointed out that the tribe was bigger. And when some folks still felt lazy and missed the good old days of lounging about visiting and snacking on whatever was around, someone got the great idea that the people would have no choice but to work if the food was kept locked away - people would get so much food for so much work. And guards were appointed to mind the stores, which kept them from all that gardening (and for which they were probably grateful). And always this new surplus, and always more babies. So eventually there is a need for more land for farming, and the best way to get that is to kill off the neighbors - which they could do, since their numbers were greater and they had the food to sustain them through long campaigns of war. And so it went, on and on, until that one culture who decided to plunk themselves down in one spot spread all over the world. And that culture is now us. Wherever you are, if you are reading this, we are the same culture. So that's pretty much what happened. It was not necessarily this general "giving up" of the nomadic ways... it was forced. And the 2 big complexities we enjoy because of that are 1- WORK, as we know it. Management. Trading your services for money to get food (because if you could figure out how to eat without slaving at you crap job all day, would you bother to show up?)and 2- WAR, as we know it. Before this time, tribes were like Native Americans. There were skirmishes at their borders and the occasional night raid, but no one was trying to utterly destroy one another, which is what happened to tribes that tried to have the Fertile Crescent Totalitarian Agrarists Society as neighbors... and is still happening to "tribes" who resist the encroachment of our culture today. Wow, I got on a roll there. I think I'll take a nap now.
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Ancient egyptian religion was actually quite coherent on food offerings for the dead.\n\nEgyptians believed that a man consisted of five parts: his body, his name, his shadow, his ka, and his ba. A ba is what makes each person unique, i.e. his personality and his traits. A ka is the life-force -- when you die, your ka leaves your body.\n\nEgyptians logically concluded that when you are alive, the ka is sustained by food--after all, when you eat, you get stronger. When you don't eat, you die.\n\nSo when egyptians left food offerings for the dead, it was the ka of the dead that consumed the "life-force" of the food, since your body is no longer present to physically consume it.\n\nIn addition, the ancient egyptians often made "invocation offerings" or "voice offerings" rather than actual food. This involved a recitation offerings made for the ka of the dead, and invoked spiritual food for them in the afterlife.
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I think they are referring to a diet - I'm not sure where it came from but there's a book- where the author explored the thought that by using your blood type to navigate where you're family has descended from you can pick better choices of food to help keep your body healthy in it's own way. I believe it stemmed back to the hunter/gather idea and how different climates and food sources in days long ago still dictate how our bodies choose to process food (red meat vs fish vs vegetarian)..... I read a part of the book - it was interesting idea, but I did not try the diet.
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We don't _require_ 3 meals. The amount of enegy that a healthy active person needs is about 2000 calories. If you eat all those at once, well, that's it. The 3 meal custom is a cultural way of keeping our lives "organized" (i.e. establishing fixed hours for eating, sleeping, etc), and also a social ritual for many people. Other people nibble at bits of food all day long and are perfectly well-fed anyway; in fact, some diets suggest eating 6 smaller meals a day in order to keep the digestive metabolism working and burning energy continuously.\nOther apes' behavior includes searching for food and eating during large parts of the day... I guess the availability of large amounts of food in modern occidental society also favors the custom of eating large meals.
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Sorry Richard, my search didn't turn up much.\nArtifact-An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.\nAnthropologists cite early pre-homo sapiens people as being tool using so it would reason that there is an artifact from 1-2 million years ago.  The Paleolithic Age (1 million years ago to 10,000 BCE, besides being a huge rnage of time, saw the first humans and with them the ability to pass on knowledge through the development of language.  These early humans were true hunter gathers andmost artifacts pertain to this seeking of food(Idaho link below).  The end of the Paleolithic  age also saw the start of religions in the world and one can find artifacts suggesting early religions (japan link below)\n\nJapan-http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news194.htm\nIdaho-http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1120314&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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not sure on food, the tools are compass, stuffs for sailing, etc. and the weapons are on the good article.\n\njust check the article out