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===== 2. The Role of Vegetables and Grains =====
* While early humans did gather plant-based foods (fruits, roots, tubers, and nuts), it’s widely believed that meat was a preferred and primary source of sustenance whenever available.
* The foraging of plant foods, including vegetables and grains, likely played a supplemental role in their diet, providing additional nutrients and calories when animal sources were scarce or during seasonal shifts. For example, in colder climates or during winter months, hunting would have been more difficult, so people may have turned to stored plant foods or foraged for roots and berries.
* Grains (e.g., wild grasses) weren’t a significant part of early human diets until the Neolithic Revolution, when humans transitioned to agriculture around 10,000 years ago. This shift led to the cultivation of grains like wheat and barley, but before this, grains were not a primary source of food for hunter-gatherers.