I think it is more likely that early humans ate a little food throughout the day. That seems like the kind of diet you'd expect from people traveling around a lot and eating whatever they could carry in their satchel or could find on the trail. I don't doubt they "feasted" sometimes as a tribe, but that had to be rare for nomadic humans.
I think that is wrong. Nomadic tribes likely didn't just "wander around" as that burns energy and they would certainly understand energy conservation. The men very specifically spent the day hunting and the women cared for the children and foraged near their campsite. I would assume that the women and children would eat more frequently through the day, and the men would eat one large meal at night
I can see that angle. I am not an expert on this or anything. Eating a 4,000 calorie carb bomb all at once at 7 PM doesn't seem super healthy to my layman mind.
From my also very amateur opinion, the little bit of looking into food timing I've done makes me think the only metric that really matters is calories/day.
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