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Absolutely there are more fat meat eaters than vegans/vegetarians, but that is just population based. Unfortunately people seem to be predisposed to a sedentary lifestyle, so they don't burn nearly as many calories as they should. As far as how much protein is necessary, that depends on how much lean muscle you have and how active you are. Certainly Brock Lesnar can justify the 300 grams of protein he takes in daily because he's a 300+ lb mountain of a man who trains 4-6 hours per day. The common 200 lb guy with 150 lbs of lean weight that doesn't do anything besides go to work can probably get away with much less--like 50 grams--but that doesn't mean they are going to be healthy.
Unlike chimpanzee's and other primates that we are genetically similar too, we now live a more stationary lifestyle. We don't have to run and climb 24 hours per day to feed ourselves and escape from larger carnivores. Besides, chimps are our closest relatives and they do hunt meat (other smaller primates, squirrels, etc), and even with that I'm not entirely sure any comparison to the diet of a wild animal and that of a modern human is very fair.
if I spent my life climbing trees and instead of typing, I would be far more muscular as well.
My point is, if we were supposed to have been just like them and evolved, at some point we went from vegetarians to meat eaters as we left the tropics and moved to colder climates. If musculature is the gauge of healthy, humans actually devolved as they moved away from plant based diets. If a modern man were to spend his life as a mountain gorilla, the gorilla could still kick his ass in a fight. If the gorilla spent his life on the couch, he's still going to kick the modern man's ass in a fight.