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Paul McCartney has spent more than five decades as one of music’s most recognizable figures, but his family’s relationship with food has quietly become just as long running a story. What started as one uncomfortable moment at the dinner table turned into a lifestyle that has now outlasted most of his tours

Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such as lions and hyenas. But as a group, hominins – that’s Neanderthals, our species and other extinct close relatives – aren’t specialized flesh eaters. Rather,…