Analysis Of Bigger Guts Vs. Big Brains

The most interesting portion of the book was the section where the author discussed the idea of ``Bigger Guts vs. Bigger Brains.`` When our handyman ancestors had a stomach that was fit for digesting berries, various plants and nuts required a longer track system in order to congest the content seems very logical. This meant that these massive and complex intestines require more energy, which meant that the brain had less energy at its disposal. Because of the changing environment, these species were forced to adapt by eating small animals and insects. This was nature’s way of creating a diet that was beneficial to the Handyman in these extreme conditions, because meat gives a much greater amount of energy and also requires a much less amount
This evolutionary process caused problems for the child birth process in the long run, and forced the infants to come to life at a much younger age. This entire process made the child birth come premature, driving the infants out of their mothers earlier, requiring them to also adapt for survival in the harsh conditions of the world. The infants were so small that they could not adapt physically, instead they utilized the bigger brains they were gifted with to devise new strategies for survival. The parents also were struggling to hunt and survive on their own now they were dealt with completely helpless infants. In this situation they had to adapt as well, using their bigger brains to comprise groups that would help each other and not just compete against each other. Also the increase in size of the cerebral cortex allowed them to create tools, weapon and new strategies for hunting. The big head infants and small waist mothers were in a complete state of survival, and what species do when they are absolutely struggling to stay alive is slow down the reproduction process and attempt to perfect the circumstances that are at
Now that the brain has evolved to be the volume that it is at birth we are born with intelligent minds, but does it matter if the human being never eats meat and is born in to a vegetarian family. Does this mean that if the person only eats fruits and vegetables will they require a larger stomach to process the food? And does this also mean that the body’s digestion process requires so much more energy to gather nutrients that it is robbing necessary nutrients for the brain to grow and develop just for digestion. Given that it takes long periods of time for evolution to change the makeup of anything, I wonder how long it would take for evolution to change the body back to big stomachs if the circumstances were such that there was a limited amount of meat left or maybe even none. Maybe we are so far developed that the process could not be reversed. But it would be interesting to see if a culture developed the notion that they will no longer eat meat, be it moral values or circumstances, what the outcome would be in the next one to two million years from