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As you probably know, everyone should drink milk. Lots and lots and lots of milk. All your life. Or so says the American Dairy Industry, often using those sexy posters of famous people with milk smeared on their faces. The truly amazing thing about those posters is that the people in them more often [...] Chimp, Australopith and Human Teeth Compared. The evolution of human diet followed a major zig (as in zig-zag) in a wholly unexpected direction, followed by the most significant biological innovation to ever occur among multi celled animals: The invention of cooking. I’m actually going to point you to two papers on this topic, and [...] I’ve never been that big of a fan of hunting as the explanation for everything that happened in human evolution, and I’ve tended to explore other areas more. This has led some to believe that I’m simply against acknowledging any role of hunting in human prehistory and evolution. This of course is not true at [...] In considering the evolution of human language, I think it is helpful to contrast these two books, and the ideas presented in them: Terrence Deacon’s “The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain” and Stephen Pinker’s “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)” Neither book is exceptionally new, and in fact, [...] |
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