[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Nathan Zachary]

[struggle]

BEFORE

Modern

The FUTURE!!!

[scottdeus12]

EGGHEAD SCIENTISTS....UGH


please don't tell me taxpayers pay for this garbage!

[adorno]

About five to seven million years ago, when the lineage of humans and chimpanzees split, edible root plants similar to rutabagas and turnips may have been one of the reasons.

Which came first?

Did the roots cause man to evolve and split from its chimpanzee like ancestors?

Or,

Did a genetic change occur before the chimpanzee descendant discovered that roots were edible?

Also, is a highly intelligent creature the only type that has discovered that roots are edible? Aren't there lower forms of animals that eat roots?

[pabianice]

I thought it was Gatorade (tm).

[Verginius Rufus]

Turnips led to the split between chimps and human beings? Turnips also played a role in the split between Britain and the U.S.

The First Continental Congress met in reaction to the Intolerable Acts, which were the British government's reaction to the Boston Tea Party, which was a form of resistance to the tax on tea...which had been first instituted by Charles Townshend in 1767. He was the grandson of "Turnip" Townshend, so called for his encouraging the growing of turnips to restore nutrients to the soil.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. For the record, I hate rutabaga. Until today, I'd never used the phrase "for the record" in a sentence, and now I've done it twice.

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[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[Dustbunny]

Sounds just like just another 'Grant Money' theory.

[Junior]

Ping.