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If herbivores have long intestinal tract and carnivores have short intestinal tracts, humans seem to be more closely related to herbivores due to their long intestinal tracts. Humans have canine teeth just like the canine species. So did humans evolve from carnivores, herbivores or from omnivores?


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Most primates are primarily herbivores but supplement their diet with insects and small reptiles and mammals. Humans' greater diet of meat is probably fairly recent.

--- Jade


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