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આમના દ્વારા પોસ્ટ કરેલા Ann Althouse પર 7:19 PM
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Jaq કહ્યું...

I have been thinking about it, and I am more and more persuaded that my "carrion eating" theory of the "naked ape" has a lot going for it. Not just the parallel of vultures losing the feathers on their head, which was to allow the sun to disinfect their skin after diving into fetid carrion. Obviously buzzards can't lose all of their feathers or they would not be able to fly, but the archeology of tool use. Use of stone tools that were crafted by man go back about 2.5 million years, but butcher marks on bones of large animals goes back around 4 million years. Even. a chimpanzee could, if it could think of it, pick up a rock laying on the ground and use it to smash the bones of a large animal recently killed to extract the marrow. It just makes sense to me that humans would have done this for a long time, and as their nutrition improved from the fat and protein of marrow scavenged from kills of larger predators of large animals, their brains might grow, and they might get the idea to modify the stones for greater effect.

The rest of the advantages from hairlessness would flow from the condition itself. I doubt that humans were able to chase animals down over long distances while they were covered in fur, and then eventually, the humans with less fur were more successful, I think it more likely that hominids that found themselves hairless would then exploit the condition.

Anyway, this theory makes a lot more sense to me than the swimming apes theory, which has no archeological support, and seems to be a "just so" story.

4/5/25 07:32 PM
Christopher B કહ્યું...

I didn't read the comments on the hairless thread but I had a couple of thoughts bouncing around my head, and don't know if anyone brought this up.

IIRC our brains use a good part of the total energy generated by our bodies (think of how just putting on or taking off a hat can change your comfort level). I suspect that we became hairless because an excess of hair interfered with regulating the temperature of the blood flowing to our brains (note that hallucinations are a common side effect of a high fever). So brain size, hairlessness, and perspiration are tied together by the need to keep our body temperature stable. With all the blood flow needed to power our brains, we still kept an excess of hair on our scalps and faces where the density of follicles would help clotting and heal wounds quicker than on the parts of our bodies that were basically just acting as a radiator for our brains.

4/5/25 08:16 PM
Jimmy કહ્યું...

What a beautiful spot. Nice photos. Spring time again.

4/5/25 08:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

TIL: A 14-year-old is medically independent from their parents.

I don't know if that is true or not. It could be miss information.

4/5/25 08:51 PM
Iman કહ્યું...

The Houston Rockets are laying down like dogs. C’mon, beat the shite out the Warriors.

You can do it…

4/5/25 09:35 PM
HistoryDoc કહ્યું...

Better luck in teh next year, Iman.

4/5/25 10:49 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...

OK, an apartment building just north of Houston in Manhattan, in the early 80's. I had an apartment in this building because I had called in a favor. But it was a handshake deal.
The other tenants were going on "rent strike". Somehow, at about 11:00 AM, I was sitting in the hallway in the apartment of the gal who was organizing this "strike".

4/5/25 11:03 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...

She was a good-looking gal, early thirties I'd guess. She and I were having a discussion. I was trying to explain that the only reason I even had an apartment in this building, was that someone had done me a favor. So, if I wanted to go on "rent strike", and stop paying rent, the only honorable thing for me to do would be to move out. And I was not in a position to do that.

4/5/25 11:10 PM
DINKY DAU 45 કહ્યું...

TRUMP SOUND LIKE A TRUE COMMIE,NOT SAYING YOUR KIDS CAN ONLY HAVE 5 PENCILS NOT 100 AND 2 DOLLS NOT 30 and oh yeah they'll cost more..This guy does love RETRICTING SHIT,,Putin erdogan,duterte Balsonnarro just love this guy.You tell em this is how many you can have because I say so,,fuk what your parents say,, Whats next food rationing and a little symbol put on your outdoor clothes so they can tell if your :one of them" He is a German you know and we have heard things about that regime written down and it sure looks like a lean

4/5/25 11:12 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...

It must have been a weekend, because a) I had a six-pack of tall Budweisers, and I was on the third can, and b) I was wearing some cutoff jeans, and shoes. And that was all I was wearing. So, she's arguing with me, but she's also checking me out -- tall, buffed, blonde, blue eyes. Whatever. What made the situation interesting was that there was this PR guy there, Manuel, pushing some grift or other. Obviously, Manuel wanted into her pants in a big way. And she was open to the possibility, but she was intrigued by watching how he and I interacted. He wanted me gone, and would have liked to get physical. Except, I was pretending that there was no hint of hostility in the situation. Just kicking back, stating my case, and drinking Bud. So, he really wanted to pick some kind of fight with me. Except, he could see that I was totally buffed, and, maybe more important, I obviously was not even slightly concerned about him. I was laughing at him, and she could see it, and he could too. But he couldn't nerve himself to do anything about it.
Probably just as well. My plan, if he got spunky, was to toss him over the railing and down two flights of stairs. Hard to say, how that would have turned out, but I was lifting big iron in those days. I was a monster. Manuel may have felt froggy, but Manuel did not jump.

4/5/25 11:26 PM
wildswan કહ્યું...

I've been listen to Chris Cillizza and members of the White House press pool explaining how they were misled by Tricky Joe because they were just too, too trusting. They sound like the inhabitants of Kate Greenaway pictures
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Pied_Piper2.jpg

4/5/25 11:39 PM
gadfly કહ્યું...

Vultures are generally larger than buzzards and belong to different family genuses. Despite some regional naming confusion, they have distinct diets and physical characteristics. Turkey vultures are magnificent sights soaring high above in North America but up-close their bald heads are red and ugly to facilitate carrion-eating. Buzzards have head feathers and they hunt and kill live animals.

5/5/25 02:39 AM
gadfly કહ્યું...

Dinky is correct. Donny 2 Dolls did promise lower prices, not lower buying power.

5/5/25 02:45 AM
wendybar કહ્યું...

Dinky is correct. Donny 2 Dolls did promise lower prices, not lower buying power.

5/5/25, 2:45 AM

Funny, how neither of you mention the King of Supply and Demand...Bernie who would limit your deodorant choices to one, because you don't need 20 different kinds. You Progressives should all smell the same. (and wear exactly the same clothes and sneakers)

https://reason.com/2015/05/26/bernie-sanders-dont-need-23-choices-of-d/



5/5/25 03:07 AM
john mosby કહ્યું...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of V-E Day. We're not doing anything here. Today being a Monday Bank Holiday anyway, Britain is doing huge nationwide celebrations.

And I'm certain we won't be doing a damn thing in August for V-J day.

Yes, the Brits and Euros were more directly threatened by Hitler, so V-E Day is a celebration of existential survival for them. For us, it's just been an obscure entry on garage calendars. But they are also using the 80th anniversary as basically a farewell to the WWII generation. At today's main events in London, they have something like 30 veterans left, ranging in age from 96 to 104.

We haven't used any of the WWII anniversaries, from Pearl Harbor to D-Day to VJ or anything else, to do this.

Trump did make some noise about increasing celebrations of VE Day, but it's a bit late.

Sad.

JSM

5/5/25 04:31 AM
john mosby કહ્યું...

On the bright side, there don't seem to be any plans to turn the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima into "Shame on You Fucking Gaijin Day," so there's that.

JSM

5/5/25 04:57 AM

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