The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
there's this historical anthropologic evidence of hunter-gatherers sort of shunning the lean animals saying there's no food there and only hunting the fattiest animals I think there's lots of anthropologic evidence that humans were fat hunters and that we sought out fat eating bone marrow and brain and these things played a critical role in human evolution
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humans are fat hunters
and they hunted you know fatty animals and they would in the hunt they wouldn't kill lean animals and I think there are examples of this in indigenous or anthropologic literature or looking at indigenous cultures if there are only mean animals around I think you said this if there are only mean animals around they would say there's no food there's no food if there's only lean animals
and they hunted you know fatty animals and they would in the hunt they wouldn't kill lean animals
if we could have hunted a woolly mammoth which has you know 20 percent body fat that's a lot more fat that we can eat nose-to-tail because there's enough fat here
if you extrapolate from the body fat of elephants they estimate woolly mammoths had body fat of you know probably more than 50 percent
when they depicted the animals they actually hunted what did you see you saw something that looked like it came off a macy's day parade float this great big bubble of a body and tiny little stick legs this disproportionately fat body
them they wanted the fact i've seen in the anthropological literature that that all sorts of tribes did that they always hunted the fattest animals and if they if the animals were too lean they just didn't even hunt them that's right or they just leave them out in the sun to rot and move on to the something that was had more fat because they understood that protein without sufficient fat was was detrimental right that there was a protein sealing they may not have understood that concept but they did know that eating too much lean meat could make you sick and they knew that fat was really really really important
Human hunters on the other hand preferentially went after the fat sassy animals even though they were harder to catch and quite a bit more dangerous to go after because they knew there was a big payoff they wanted the fact that to them they wanted the fact I've seen in the anthropological literature that that all sorts of tribes did that they always hunted the fattest animals and if they if the animals were too lean they just didn't even hunt them that's right or they just leave them out in the sun to rot and move on to the something that was had more fat because they understood that protein without sufficient fat was was detrimental right that there was a protein sealing they may not have understood that concept but they did know that eating too much lean meat could make you sick and they knew that fat was really really really important
prime adults this is the group that humans because prime adults either either male or female prime adults are always the fatter animals in the in the species