Meat consumption was a factor in human evolution, with plant-eating hominids going extinct while meat-eating hominids evolved into Homo habilis.

“you can look at studies like this one looking at paranthropus and other species that there's a diversion between paranthropus robustus and homo habilis and homo erectus paranthropus was a plant eater he went extinct australopithecus evolved into homo habilis who was eating more meat this is evidence for this in bone and teeth”