Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
Sigh...
The draft neanderthal genome is 99.7% identical to version 19 of the normalized NCBI human assembly. Given that variation between humans approaches 0.15% this very strongly suggests that there has been very little genetic evolution over the past few hundred thousand years.
Much later divergence than the origin of eating meat, therefore, diets between the two were/are similar.
Why would one expect more than a 0.3% difference?
In fact, this is a moot point and reduces your credibility to design an accurate comparison (unless this is your positive/negative control depending on hypothesis, which you haven't provided).
Sigh.