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> How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

Humans can also eat and digest shirts, pencils and small pieces of plastic. And you didn't provide any evidence of any adaptations we have to meat eating. Check and mate.




We can't derive nutrition from wood or plastic. We derive excellent nutrition from meat, because we have the requisite enzymes. That is the adaptation.




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