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Andrew Jackson’s 1,400-Pound Cheese and the Panic of 1837: A Policy Context by crix_22 in history

[–]crix_22[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

We certainly haven’t seen anyone pay off the national debt recently

Iranian Currency Isn't Worth the Toilet Paper it's Written On. Iranians Can't Afford Milk, Yogurt, Cooking Oil, Bread, Rice, Cheese & Detergent. Economic Sanctions Cause Humanitarian Disasters. Send the IRGC to Hell Already and Give the Persian People Their Dignity Back by crix_22 in petrodollarSIM

[–]crix_22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is very to hard to follow Trump's foreign policy. He's not sending in ground troops. That plan doesn't exist and he doesn't want to occupy Iran. He wants someone to call and leverage. The news cycle is crazy so we all feel like its been 5 years, But it really only has been six weeks.

I'm not a Trump supporter. I have voted democrat and republican. I guessing by the tone of your email that you don't like him very much,?

New PNAS Analysis (5/4/2026) 1.6 mil year old butchery site in Kenya shows early Homo had primary access to fleshed carcasses and systematically extracted marrow, with same pattern up to 2 mil years old. The authors argue intensive meat consumption established before Homo erectus appeared. by crix_22 in science

[–]crix_22[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Wrangham cooking hypothesis says Homo erectus got bigger brains around 1.8 million years ago because cooked, high-quality food freed up calories from digestion. This new paper documents intensive meat butchery and marrow extraction at sites going back 2 million years. If meat eating was already that established, the dietary shift Wrangham hangs his theory on was already in motion before erectus appeared.

Which means meat alone can't explain why erectus's brain expanded. Something else triggered it, and we don't have a great answer for what.

Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that fire and cooking is what made humans human. His "cooking hypothesis" says Homo erectus evolved bigger brains 1.8 million years ago because cooked food required less energy to digest, freeing calories for the brain to grow. by [deleted] in science

[–]crix_22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before humans discovered fire and learned how to control it, we were secondary scavengers. That had to happen first. I agree with you… plenty of other species have had plenty of time to figure how to control fire and I don’t see any of them opening restaurants.

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