Paleo is not a list of foods. It is matching one's diet/lifestyle with one's genes. The paleo part is an aid to knowing how to match one's diet/lifestyle with one's genes. It is only an aid, a starting point. You have to work out the details because no one knows your genetic structure with regard to your diet, but you can figure it out with trial and error.

I run long distances. Some "paleo" guru says that isn't paleo. I don't give a fig leaf what some "paleo" guru says. I love running and I have seen with my own eyes (via TV) bushmen running down game and tiring them to exhaustion and killing them. They ran for like 11 miles to catch and tire that animal. Running seems paleo to me, as much as sprinting and weight lifting.

It is very difficult to work out the details of your genetic dietary needs when you are doing things that are grossly out of line with your genes, like grains and legumes. It is like trying to catch a signal when there is a lot of noise. You have to reduce the noise a lot in order to hear any signal. Then, once you have some kind of signal, you can fine tune the signal. But if you have too much noise (like too many grains and legumes) and can't hear any signal, then fine tuning is useless.

why dont you agree?

and besides eggs = meat

What really bothers me about vegan/PETA people is that their answer is just, "JUST STOP!! STOP KILLING ANIMALS!!" Instead of something more productive like putting their efforts behind movements to pasture livestock. They can shame a celeb into giving up a fur, but they can't shame meat suppliers into grass feeding instead of grain feeding? I know that they don't agree with meat consumption, which, sorry, is what human are adapted for, but they must agree with giving livestock a better quality of life before they're slaughtered.

I would like to gently direct both of you to the "Paleo and vegetarianism: let’s be friends!" article by Denise Minger: http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/08/13/ancestral-health-symposium/

Eggs and dairy can't take the place of eating "meat" (red meat and poultry), because "meat", eggs, and dairy are different things that we need at different times. Red meat is also different to offals. They are all very differently composed, thus by nature, nothing can replace another. But as tj said, eggs = a type of meat and animal protein, even though not necessarily red meat or poultry.

Plant produce with eggs and dairy is still better than plant produce alone, IMO. Let your friend make her own choices and she will find what fits her on her own time. If she decided to be vegetarian, perhaps she will like tempeh, which is fermented soy protein (not paleo but better than other soy products out there, and definitely fits the WAPF standards).

Not having qualms with eating meat allows more variety in obtaining various nutrients. I think the main problem with the typical plant-centric diet is that you aren't absorbing many of the nutrients that are there due to anti-nutrients (usually because of the interaction between minerals and phytic acid, if you are really interested in this stuff check out Mat Lalonde's AHS 2011 talk). Because the organisms that used to be meat have other means of escaping predation they appear to have less of these anti-nutrients - thus making the nutrients from them more easily absorbed (evolutionary perspective, but not proved).

I don't see the problem with anybody eating a plant-centric diet as long as they are aware of some of the possible issues (omega-6, intestinal permeability, phytic acid, more, more, more, etc).

aside - you & your friend may find this interesting if you haven't seen it already: Being Shellfish

Vegetarianism is not incompatible with paleo principles. Eggs and dairy easily cover nutrient needs, where flesh is not really necessary. The list of nutrients only found in animal products is rather small, it makes sense then that a relatively small amount of animal products can meet human needs for these nutrients.

Not sure in what way dairy and butter replaces meat. What nutrient does your friend say is in meat that they are getting by substituting dairy and butter (and not other plant products like oils for fats), other than the fact it originates from an animal?