National Archives and Records Administration A hundred years ago, oysters and shellfish were a staple of a working person’s diet in New York and on the east coast; they were cheap, plentiful and healthy. Maggie Koerth-Baker of BoingBoing writes that a couple of hundred thousand years ago they were too; in fact, they may have saved humanity from starvation

in a world of changing climate. Conditions were so bad that the population of breeding humans may have been reduced to as little as 1,000, but Professor Curtis Marean, Ph.D suggests that a shellfish diet kept them… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Oysters May Have Saved the Human Race