Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests

PhysOrg ^

[ameribbean expat]

"Challenges associated with finding food have long been recognized as important in shaping evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans," said Amanda D. Melin, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences and lead author of the study.

"Our work suggests that digging for insects when food was scarce may have contributed to hominid cognitive evolution and set the stage for advanced tool use."

[rdl6989]

A little tabasco sauce makes anything delicious.

[Songcraft]

Here's a little crunchy meat & veggie snack you can enjoy together...

       

[beebuster2000]

anyone know what an "embedded insect" is?

is that like something that lives in your pillow or what?

[JoeProBono]

A chimp using a stick to extract termites.

[wildbill]

Nah, they may have eaten insects for dessert, but I read a highly notated book whose thesis was that humans got smarter by eating brains of humans they killed.

Eat more brains and you get smarter sounds right to me. I mean how many brains does a grasshopper have?

[beebuster2000]

chilean sea bass is cultural appropriation. unless you are chilean.

plus it has the word “ass” in it.

two reasons not to eat it IMHO

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

Well, some people call the lobster the *cockroach of the sea*. So there.:)

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

Cousin Louie, is that you?

[SunkenCiv]

I also feel that way about public transportation, public housing, public television...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

More “science” in support of the Globull Warming insect diet movement, I suppose.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve kind of enjoyed public transportation when I’ve used it - you get out and see people and things you wouldn’t otherwise.

Agree with the rest ;-)