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"We didn't so much evolve to eat fish, but we did evolve to eat mussels. Neanderthals 150,000 years ago in Europe were found eating mussels. Mussels can simply be grabbed, whereas catching fish requires a level of technology and intelligence we seem to have reached only in more recent eras. It's the seafood our ancestors ate."

I know this is an old post and everything, but this is pure nonsense. Modern day humans didn't descend from Neanderthals; they were a branch of early hominids that died out. Yes some Neanderthals genes survive today due to some inter-species breeding, but citing Neanderthals as a reason to eat mussels as if it were their only food source and simultaneously claiming that we didn't evolve to eat fish is just pure bs.

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