Left in the Dark - Extraordinary support for the frugivorian lifestyle

I've been reading this truly amazing free book that provides an excellent scientifically-sound (IMO) hypothesis for how we came to be left or right handed instead of ambidextrous like all the other animals of earth. But more importantly is the way it brings together a wealth of scientific research that supports our biologican and physiological existence as frugivores as opposed to carnivores, herbivores, insectivores, graminivores and definitely not omnivores. It also puts to bed the "meat gave us bigger brains" and "cooking made us human" myths that are, for some reason, being heavily pushed of late. (Mere coincidence, you think?)

Regardless of what your viewpoint on any of the above, this is an excellent read and I highly recommend it to everyone who has a scientific leaning and an interest in our heritage.

The book is called "Left in the Dark" by Graham Gynn and Tony Wright and is currently available for free (second edition) at http://leftinthedark.org.uk/sites/default/files/Left%20in%20the%20Dark%20free...
The latest edition (3) is also available for purchase as an ebook or hardcopy via http://www.lulu.com/shop/tony-wright-and-graham-gynn/left-in-the-dark/ebook/p...
for £6.95 ebook/£17.95 hardcopy.

There is a helpful brief (1-page) synopsis available at http://leftinthedark.org.uk/sites/default/files/Brief%20Synopsis.pdf


Tony Wright joined the 30BaD forum to answer any questions that members had about their research and that is available for reading at http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/left-in-the-dark-qa


Many (if not all?) of the scientific papers referenced in the book are available in full at http://leftinthedark.org.uk/files#General_Interest.
(This could take me some time to work through but if I have a spare moment I'll hack through it piece by piece!)


Peace to all,
NH...

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