[riedel]

No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus [1].

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2115540119

[losteric]

Yep, 2MM years of eating meat - it's definitely weird to suggest meat eating humans are a new "subspecies" rather than the historical norm.

[soperj]

> The evolution of these traits is commonly linked to a major dietary shift involving increased consumption of animal tissues.

I've never heard of this linkage. I've always heard it was on account of cooking the meat, rather than eating more of it.

[MadcapJake]

I'd argue that the increase occurred earlier. Everything we're learning about other human species is showing they also had intelligence and were around before Erectus came to be.