And now, you're wondering what I'm talking about. The Claim:
Paranthropus robustus was driven to extinction because its
specialized "vegan" diet prevented it from adapting to changing
climate. Or so I was recently informed by manowar40 in a YouTube
comments section. His contention is that Homo was able to adapt
to drying climate because of our omnivorous diets, while P.
robustus was so dependent on a "vegan" diet that it died out. It
would be easy for me to dismiss this as just another misinformed
omnivore on his high horse, but that's only because I'm a geek
who reads paleontology journals. In other words, he doesn't
follow all the latest research, and just relies on informed
third parties to fill him in. And there's nothing wrong with
that; it doesn't make him a dumbo at all. It's just that his
sources, whoever they are, are a bit behind the times. True, it
used to be the consensus that P. robustus died off because of a
specialized diet. The reason for this assessment is that the
paranthropines had big, fla