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Tag Archives: homo erectus
Maybe It Was The Sashimi…
…as in fish, not fauna, that nudged our ancestors of 2 million years ago (already striding on their highly-functional feet) along the path toward larger & more complex brains. Granted, they probably didn’t enjoy succulent hamachi like we do today (no … Continue reading
Posted in Humans Love Food!, Our Primate Nature
Tagged climate change, history of cooking, homo erectus, human primate, sushi
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Can We Please Rename Homo Erectus?
I hope this won’t be too much of a rant, because I really appreciate the role that those homo erectus folks played in our evolution. They not only migrated from Africa all the way to eastern Asia and parts of the Middle East … Continue reading