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Tool Use By Humans Pushed Back By 800,000 Years
gpronger writes "The journal Nature reports that newly discovered tool marks on bones indicates that we were using tools at minimum 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. This places the start of tool use at 3.4 million years ago or earlier. The most likely ancestor in this time frame would be Australopithecus afarensis. The researchers, led by palaeoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the California Academy of Science, San Francisco,and Shannon McPherron, (an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany) state that cut marks on the bones of an impala-sized creature and another closer in size to a buffalo, indicate butchering of the animals by our distant ancestors. However, they do not believe that they were in fact hunters, more likely scavenging the remains left behind by large predators."
O.K. It look like some one needs to stop reading the liberal media for a while. The post was so out of context that it wasn't at all useful. Chill man. You don't need to rant about problems in our food system just because some one uttered the word food.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This would surely make those McDonalds birthday parties *way* more exciting for the kids.
Yes what we need is an animal which wants to be eaten. HHTG aside my wife is of Chinese origin and every time her family eat crab or lobster for dinner they insist on being photographed with the live animal 20 minutes before the main course is served.
I'm the squeamish one who asks for a "nice glass of water".
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