As a matter of fact, cows were pretty late on the "domestication" game (around 3-4k years after pigs and sheep)[1].
Also, a lot of studies indicate that the kind of meat the humans ate when their brains grew was much more on the frog/bird/misc small animals side than on domesticated cattle.
[1] The edible story of food / Guns, germs & steel
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As a matter of fact, cows were pretty late on the "domestication" game (around 3-4k years after pigs and sheep)[1].
Also, a lot of studies indicate that the kind of meat the humans ate when their brains grew was much more on the frog/bird/misc small animals side than on domesticated cattle.
[1] The edible story of food / Guns, germs & steel