Posted on 06/11/2010 4:54:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has found that early hominids living in what is now northern Kenya ate a wider variety of foods than previously thought, including fish and aquatic animals such as turtles and crocodiles. Rich in protein and nutrients, these foods may have played a key role in the development of a larger, more human-like brain in our early forebears, which some anthropologists believe happened around 2 million years ago, according to the researchers' study... In 2004, the team discovered a 1.95 million-year-old site in northern Kenya and spent four years excavating it, yielding thousands of fossilized tools and bones. According to paper's lead author David Braun of the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the site provided the right conditions to preserve those valuable artifacts... The preservation of the artifacts was so remarkable, in fact, that it allowed the team to meticulously and accurately reconstruct the environment, identifying numerous fossilized plant remains and extinct species that seem to be a sign that these early humans lived in a wet -- and possibly even a marshy -- environment... "Today, the Turkana region in northern Kenya is an extremely dry and harsh environment. So, clearly, the environment of this butchery site was very different 1.95 million years ago -- this spot was much wetter and lush."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
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feed your head ping
You have lived until you’ve tried hippo tartare.
That which kills... :-))
Funny today whenever someone has extra brain tissue we call it a tumor. Furthermore the notion that what your ancestors do can influence you gentically has been proven to be wrong.
We’ll need a bigger sauce dish.
Just kidding around.
But after you earlier stated “I don’t know what got into me, I’d pinged EVERY OTHER topic on FR. ;’)”, I figgered you would have gotten out whatever had gotten in...
Uh-oh, now I’ve gotta go back, see what I missed — the second time in the very same topic. I’d better take my medication before bed...
Those interested in the evolutionarily acquired behavioral predispositions should read Robert Ardrey’s African Genesis.
More hard data, in less space, and more easily read than any book on this subject since the publication of African Genesis in the mid 1960’s.
There is a reason that MITS & WITS bought foot noted non fiction in such numbers that this book was on the NYT best seller list for many months.
Oops - MITS = Man In The Street
WITS = Woman In The Street
"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see." (Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, p 23-24)
Gonna have to check this one out. Thanks GG.
If your medication is real good, how about sharing it with some of us insominac’s...
Hmm. Crocodile as brain food. Perhaps that’s why the amydala has often been considered the most primitive ‘reptilian’ part of the brain controlling the fear/fight responses.
The amygdala has also been implicated in emotional states associated with aggressive, maternal, sexual, and ingestive (eating and drinking) behaviors. Less is known about the detailed circuitry involved in these emotional states than is known about fear.
Best thing for sleep is a hippopotamus sandwich, the trick is to find those really big kaiser rolls.
:O) does it taste like chicken?(the hippo)
one thing’s for sure, it lives in denile.
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