Cordain suggests that prior to the agricultural revolution, early humans ate this Paleo Diet for 2.5 million years. The 10,000 years since the popularization of farming — or just 333 human generations — he says, is clearly a drop in the chronological bucket when compared with the millennia leading up to it. Thus, he maintains, the hunter-gatherer diet our ancestors lived on is far more deeply and indelibly imprinted into our DNA than our habits of the last few thousand years. I'm inclined to agree with him. In fact, I'm going to see his 2.5 million years and raise him a few millennia, and show you what we were really designed to eat. The real Paleo Diet would have included bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.
You ever tried eating bugs? I've wanted to, but I can't bring myself to do it. My cousin, who has traveled extensively in South America, has had a bunch of different kinds, and actually has some not half bad things to say about some cicadas that he ate in Peru. Apparently the meat is somewhat similar to shrimp. Makes sense, I suppose, but my brain just won't let me do it. My disgust, it seems, is much stronger than my curiosity.