Fw: That TRP guy, amazing how (almost) everything connects

[Mark Kohut]

> to his congeries of poetic
> associations. 
>  
> From a book called "Catching Fire: How Cooking
> Made us Human" by Richard Wrangham,evolutionary
> biologist, 2009 there is this
> regarding those anti-beach cobblestones." The
> transition [from australopithecines to the genus homo
> ] is first signaled at 2.6 million years ago
> by sharp flakes dug from Ethiopian rock. The fragments
> testify to cobblestones being deliberately clashed to
> produce a tool." p. 3
>  
> A bit later in the book, pp.33-34, comes the story of
> Helena Valero, a woman who escaped from the Yanomamo tribe
> and 
> survived in a remote forest in Brazil in the 1930s.
> She found an abandoned banana plantation and mostly ate raw
> bananas, she 
> said.  Her story, understandably, had no other
> verifiers but the writer says that she might have been very
> lucky to have found an
> abundant supply of a high-calorie domesticated fruit.
> Quote: "Bananas are often touted as nature's most
> perfect food."
>  
> 
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