Archive for the ‘Anthropology’ Category
I Am Therefore I Think!
Tweet The title comes from John Galt, the character of Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged. He declared that “man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is the only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is [...]
In: Anthropology, Cancer, Diet, Disease, Obesity, Populations
Seems We’ve Been Eating Meat Longer Than Thought
Tweet To further erode the famous anthropological theory of our origins, new evidence has appeared indicating that we’ve been using tools and eating meat for much longer than what was originally thought. Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues say the find is evidence that Australopithecus afarensis [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Tweet
Meat Made Us Smarter!
Tweet According to anthropology, we began as tree-dwellers eating fruit, leaves, and maybe some nuts. (This hypothesis is very questionable because we’ve since learned that the monkeys only eat leaves and fruits for the small insects found inside and they practically waste the entire piece of fruit, thus the hail of scraps which fall to [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Obesity, Tweet, Vitamins
Modern Man a Wimp, According to Anthropologist
Tweet I saw this article in Reuters by John Mehaffey and I thought this would be a great one to post here: LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump [...]
Nutrition Bars Fuel Energy…And Cavities
Tweet For centuries, mankind has relished the idea of a portable food. A food that was light, nutritious and easy to carry. During the fur trade, we learned of the Plains Indian and their use of pemmican which suited them extremely well. In fact, it can be fairly said that pemmican is the ration by [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Disease, Heart Disease
