A long held suspicion supported
Professor DeLong is discussing Professor Timothy White, an expert on African plains apes whom I've never heard of…but that's like the fifth time I've written that in the last week, so it's obviously not a negative mark on his professional reputation.
Sometimes something I'm reading brings me to a screeching halt, and it's not always predictable. When I read:
I startled myself with the thought, "What makes you think we ever did?"
But that has nothing to do with my long held suspicion. We humans glorified our ancestors as the great hunter apes when I was young, and that made as much sense to me as Tyranosaurus Rex being a great hunter. Those atrophied arms made it more likely that the beast was a scavenger (as a palentologist once said on PBS, you try catching a chicken with your mouth). Human behavior always struck me more like that of a scavenger and hoarder than a hunter.
Lo, in response to the question unanswered question came this:
Gutsy? Yeah…and far more in keeping with my view of humanity.
