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Herman Pontzer (Allen Lane)
Fancy eating the real paleo diet? Rotten meat should be top of your menu, preferably with a generous helping of maggots. Dietary records “from every continent and climate are alive with maggots, worms and the soft, smelly flesh of decaying animals. Many groups preferred rotten meat to fresh,” says evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer. “The more it stank, the better.”
In fact, we seem to have evolved to eat rotten meat. Our stomachs are much more acidic than most other…
