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To: Physicist

One of my professors thought that this form of hunting, which he called "persistence hunting," was critical in evolution. Along with that came large brains (to remember where you were, where you had been, and where the camp was, etc.). Also involved were the high-value foods obtained by hunting.


97 posted on 01/02/2006 5:30:03 PM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Coyoteman
Along with that came large brains (to remember where you were, where you had been, and where the camp was, etc.).

Bees do this with incredible specificity AND communicate their knowledge with almost no brain at all.

Long distance walking--not to say hunting, but the opportunity was there--predates big brains by at least two million years.

103 posted on 01/02/2006 5:39:17 PM PST by Physicist
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... Along with that came large brains (to remember where you were, where you had been, and where the camp was, etc.). Also involved were the high-value foods obtained by hunting.

Should've included you in #156

157 posted on 01/04/2006 2:26:02 AM PST by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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