Elephants and manatees are closely related, as well, but I would not recommend that they look to one another for dietary recommendations.
Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches. Human physiology (along with still extant hunter-gatherer cultures) indicates that we are opportunistically omnivorous cursorial hunters. The species closest to us genetically are opportunistically omnivorous frugivores. Chimps and bonobos eat fruits and nuts most of the time, and eat monkeys maybe once a month. If you want to consult the animal kingdom for dietary advice, look to wolves for the meat and bears for everything else.
Eat like a bear until you see a potential prey animal, then run it down and eat it like a wolf. When you finish, switch back to bear mode. That seems like a relatively safe diet to me.
Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches. Human physiology (along with still extant hunter-gatherer cultures) indicates that we are opportunistically omnivorous cursorial hunters. The species closest to us genetically are opportunistically omnivorous frugivores. Chimps and bonobos eat fruits and nuts most of the time, and eat monkeys maybe once a month. If you want to consult the animal kingdom for dietary advice, look to wolves for the meat and bears for everything else.
Eat like a bear until you see a potential prey animal, then run it down and eat it like a wolf. When you finish, switch back to bear mode. That seems like a relatively safe diet to me.