Posted on 09/07/2023 9:17:12 AM PDT by SJackson
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How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
Are you sure the weapons didn’t improve before they ate the elephants.
Just thinking you don’t want to attack an elephant with an inferior weapon.
“When we realized that elephants provide extraordinary fat deposits for humans, we realized that fat provides double the energy of meat without any digestion cost,”
So the true “paleo” diet is not lots of lean protein, but lots and lots of fat!
Well, yeah, smaller animals require smaller, more accurate weapons to hit the target....................
“proposes”
It would be nice if these folks would do something useful with their time and money. Although it might be an interesting proposal, does anyone really care?
Whose life will it change? (Just a bit cynical.)
What sort of superweapons will be developed to hunt single cells? I'd think extreme accuracy would be crucial.
“It’s unclear why elephants disappeared around 400,000 years ago, though it was probably a result of climate change…”
Which petroleum-powered vehicles were they driving back then? I thought Fred and Barney just used human power. 🙄
You beat me to it.
Was that kosher?
For the majority of human history most of mankind’s efforts have been to produce enough food to survive. Many people existed just barely above starvation level.
It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that agriculture started to get more efficient. Farmers could produce more food per acre. The twentieth century saw even bigger gains.
In 1900 about 97% of all jobs involved the growing, transportation, and distribution of food. In 2000 only 3% of jobs involved food. That freed up people to develop new technologies instead of trying to feed themselves.
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
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Naaa ..they hunted elephants to extinction because they wanted the ivory..the more ivory u had the richer you are , the bigger the army you could finance the more of your enemies you could wipe out and take THEiR FOOD..ivory and gold drove civilizations into power not elephant fat ..these researchers have nothing but elephant fat between their ears
These researchers are
Morons...they never study history ....they are ignoramuses...
just sayin
>>We believe that when they ran out of animals with high amounts of fat, they domesticated animals. We suggest that the transition to agriculture followed the decline of animals for prey.”
In other words, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden.
There was a time when we pretty much ate anything with a heartbeat, right after we killed it. That still happens in China to this day... And after they run out of meat, that’s when things will get bad.
>>It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that agriculture started to get more efficient.
There have actually been a number of periods when agricultural production increased rapidly. Some examples are the introduction of double cropping of rice in China, the introduction of crop rotation in Europe, the introduction of plants such as potatoes from the Americas to Europe, sugar production in Brazil and the Caribbean, etc.
Rapid growth in agricultural production is always followed by rapid growth in population until the limit is reached again.
41,000 years ago ivory was used as jewelry. Abc.net.au
Nov. 25,2021 ,”ABC Science
The authors also ignore the development of weapons for defensive use. Lions historically ranged around the eastern Mediterranean, through Asia Minor and into Europe at least a far as the Balkans. Certainly weapons developed for gathering food, but probably equally so to prevent being gathered for food.
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