Estimated size of Giganthopithecus in comparison with a human. © H. Bocherens
Estimated size of Giganthopithecus in comparison with a human. © H. Bocherens
Part of my New Year’s diet is a banana in the morning. Satisfying and burned through easily. Healthy too.
These days I take such statements with a heavy dose of salt.
In my youth the scientist were sure that Chimpanzees were vegetarian. Later observations of chimps in the wild revealed that they not only ate meat but occasionally practiced cannibalism and tribal wars.
I have come to believe that scientist unknowingly project their idealism on to the subjects of their studies.
Of course with extinct subjects it is much harder to be proven wrong.
Kwame Kilpatrick has escaped???
Too bad for the environmentalists this ape has disappeared. It would be fun to see them go out and try to hug one a la Goodall.
Geez, huge sucker. Why couldn’t it be possible that an offshoot has survived and that’s what we’re calling Sassquatch or Bigfoot?
Importantly, not too long ago, a scientist discovered that the assumption that eating raw and cooked food delivered the same amount of calories was very wrong.
In fact, raw food delivers calories so poorly that for a person to live on a “gorilla diet”, they would have to eat almost continually during every waking hour. Plus they would have perpetual diarrhea.
Following this up, he found research about those on various raw food diets and found that almost all of them suffer from some variety of malnutrition.
He also compared the effects of cooking with those of “mechanical action”, such as chopping or grinding. But the latter only produced marginal improvements in nutrition.
So cooking our food seems to have been a major breakthrough in human development.
An entire species known from a mandible and some teeth. Yeah, that is reliable.
