[Aracelis]

Thanks for the ping...an important find. I think however, that H. habilis, like all other creatures on the edge of survival, were opportunists (read scavengers) and ate what was available. Interesting though that even at this early date, the evidence suggests the use of tools in a deliberate, methodical fashion.

[f.Christian]

What I have noticed is people who claim to be the most opened minded have only an overstuffed locked closet that you can't open with an atom bomb !

No imagination or creativity ... rote brainwashed loons who circulate like trained geniuses in the intelligentsia circuses --- dodo birds headed for the smithsonian !

Some graduate to conservatism unenlightened ... I call them --- rat's nest republicans !

[GladesGuru]

Scarengers who collected a most remarkable collection of kills. Even the weapons are known.

Look up Raymond Dart's "The Osteo-donto-keratic civilization of the Austropithicine" published in the Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology.

Since there is probably only the one copy hidden in the Richter Library at SunTan U, I'd suggest finding Robert Ardrey's African Genesis. The evidence is rather striking - man has been striking tasty critters on the head with clubs for at least 2.5 million years. And some of those bonked were carnivores, too.

Carnivore meets top carnivore - sort of sums it up, doesn't it?