Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years

Discovery News ^ | Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | Larry O'Hanlon

[SunkenCiv]

The discovery of a new "missing link" species of bull dating to a million years ago in Eritrea pushes back the beef steak dinner to the very dawn of humans and cattle. Although there is no evidence that early humans were actually herding early cattle 2.5 million years ago, the early humans and early cattle certainly shared the same landscape and beef was definitely on the menu all along, say researchers... "This means that the humans have been eating Bos since the beginnings of the genus Homo," said Martinez, referring to the genus to which humans belong. The million-year-old skull of the new Bos species, dubbed Bos buiaensis, has features of both earlier and later forms of Bos, which make it essentially a missing link between more modern cow-like species found in Eurasia and the earlier African cattle ancestors found alongside hominids and dating back 2.5 million years... there is also a tantalizing resemblance between the newfound Bos and depictions of bulls in ancient petroglyphs found in western Saudi Arabia... The petroglyphs are at least 5,000 years old, she said, but very hard to date exactly... The ancient pictures also include depictions of some of the other animals known to have left Africa by the same route: lions, cheetahs and hyena, she said. The message from the new fossil echoes those being discovered about the prehistory of other domesticated animals, including horses...

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[sodpoodle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

[MIchaelTArchangel]

A bull is a male animal. There is no such things as a male species of bull or anything else.

[Hegemony Cricket]

That’s a really well-aged steak.

[cotton1706]

I hope we didn’t pay for some “study” to figure this out.

Meat over an open fire is not that hard to figure out.

[Tijeras_Slim]

And I think I had one of those at Sizzler last month.

[ClearCase_guy]

This seems all over the place. We've got 5000 year old petroglyphs and we've been eating beef for 2.5 million years. Come again?

Okay, we've found an fossilized skull, and we've been eating beef for 2.5 million years. How old is that skull? Uhhhhhh, 1 million years. Come again?

Well, the key thing is we found a missing link, because it's not this thing and it's not that thing, so we know it's a genetic link between the two. Come again?

As far as I'm concerned the science here is as rock solid as the science of Global Warming.

[La Lydia]

Bos buiaensis: It’s what’s for dinner.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

LOL. Maybe these “researchers” will tell us again how the camel got his hump and how the leopard got his spots...

[digger48]

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

The other, other red meat.

[Vaquero]

Meat eating made us human. The anthropological evidence strongly supports the idea that the addition of increasingly larger amounts of meat in the diet of our predecessors was essential in the evolution of the large human brain. Our large brains came at the metabolic expense of our guts, which shrank as our brains grew.

In April 1995 an article appeared in the journal Current Anthropology that was an intellectual tour de force and, in my view, an example of a perfect theoretical paper. “The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis” (ETH) by Leslie Aiello and Peter Wheeler demonstrated by a brilliant thought experiment that our species didn’t evolve to eat meat but evolved because it ate meat.

[NavyCanDo]

LOL! DINO like them rare just like I do.

[massgopguy]

Oh man, I had a 14 0z Steak Pizzioli yesterday that was primo.

[Berlin_Freeper]

My wife and I were at the baby doctor (who happens to be a Russian) with our 5 month old daughter for her second round of shots. My wife has been breast feeding and we planned to start with baby food at 6 months.

So I figured mashed peas or carrots, something like that. But we thought we should ask the doctor and he snapped “MEAT”. I almost jumped with surprise. We are still laughing about it.

[SunkenCiv]

heh... cereals first, and pureed’ fruits and vegetables. The pureed’ meat (either from Gerber or whatever, or carefully made at home) comes a bit later. :’) But we lovin’ meat a long time.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thanks for the tip. Still got a few weeks to really look into it.

[NavyCanDo]

Steak Dinners seem to have started about the time Beer was first being made. I think there is a connection here someplace.

A concise timeline of beer history by Prof. Linda Raley, Texas Tech University.

BEER HISTORY

Ancient History

Historians speculate that prehistoric nomads may have made beer from grain & water before learning to make bread.

Beer became ingrained in the culture of civilizations with no significant viticulture.

Noah’s provisions included beer on the Ark.

4300 BC, Babylonian clay tablets detail recipes for beer.

Beer was a vital part of civilization and the Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Inca cultures.

excerpt..

http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/raley_timetable.shtml