From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 21:13:49 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>The aquatic ape is a minority theory. It is more likely we got into the
>habit of cooking meat by using fire on the dry windy savannahs to start
>wildfires to kill and cook large amounts of animals.
>
Another idea is that they liked the taste of cooked meat better than
raw. I sure do. Charred meat has a better flavor does, it not?
Another idea is that early humans used burning bushes as tools to
drive carnivores away from a kill. The lions and hyenas compete
over a carcass. If the hyenas outnumber the lions by more than
about 5 to 1, they eat, otherwise the lions take the prize. But let
the naked apes show up with a burning bush and the big carnivores
get scarce. Dont ya just love that? {8^D
A friend who was a missionary saw modern Africans driving
away predators from their kill even in these modern times.
>The incidence of HIV jumping to humans more likely comes from people
>being bitten by HIV infected apes, as well as cutting their skin while
>butchering apes.
>
Or using apes as substitute sexual partners?
spike
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