Lol the fact that you even have to state Brains will not grow bigger just because they can, but because there is a selective advantage where animals with smaller brains reproduce less often than animals with bigger brains Like it's some revelationary concept is pretty funny. Of course their were oth...

"Legitimate internet activism" sounds like an oxymoron to me. I'd like to see a single example of an internet petition actually being successful, where the success can actually be reasonably attributed to the petition. Actually internet activism (And other forms of activism) led to the FBI getting ...

It is good to see that the American youth can get up in arms about facism in a distant country, even if the extent of their involvement is buying a 30$ packet of stickers or buttons. It's something, right?

I've been very critical of people latching on to Invisible Children's little movement from the moment I saw video, and when I originally heard that the filmmaker got arrested for being hammered in public beating off and breaking windows, I was actually pretty glad to be vindicated. But then I though...

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I actually don't entirely agree with the guy but it's a profound and interesting reading. So profound.

And I've said it enough times, Alan already went through the trouble of posting my evidence hahaha

Jeremy is clearly still upset about looking like an idiot for saying "tools and language magically made our brains grow lulz"

Oh. I just found the article profound and of interest.

http://www.livescience.com/6027-study-running-shoes-joint-strain.html The researchers found an increase in this torque for the knees, hips and ankles when the participants were wearing running shoes as compared with when they were running barefoot. Specifically, they saw a 38 percent increase in tor...

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Lol good one Jer! I can always count on you for a little quality modified shit talk knowing that no one is going to have to take a Midol afterwards. Though, I'd be careful sticking up for Alan and insulting someones reading comprehension in the same sentence.. After all it was Alan who read an artic...

Actually, Alan's right. This argument isn't worthy of calling anyone names. No one is dying, no one is getting tortured, no one is being denied access to any basic rights. I apologize. Edit: And the only problem I have with Canadian's is that 1/4 of them seem to believe that George Bush and a team o...

I'll refer you to the article Alan posted at the beginning of this discussion. That article is pretty good proof of the point that I'm making hahahaha, but don't ask him about that. But no really, the E.T.H. is exactly the study I would've posted as proof of my theory. Like I've said enough times no...

Also, and this one is for anyone, I'm still looking for an explanation on what the calorie source was that allowed Hominid's metabolisms to redirect a huge part of it's energy reserves towards building the brain, assuming that calorie source is not bone marrow and scavenged meat.

Jeremy? Ken? Alan?

Why do you think I said "(As nearly all meat would've been back then)" and not "(As all meat would've been back then)"? I qualified the sentence because I'm sick of you taking one sentence out of an entire post of mine and trying to make yourself sound smart by countering it, but apparently you stil...

This whole debate started because Lierre Keith thinks that our evolutionary history means that being a vegetarian is bad, and I think that our evolutionary history does not tell us how we should do anything No, you've missed her point from the beginning... She focuses very very little in that artic...

Also Jeremy: I also note that analysis of both the diets of our closest relatives, and of hunter gatherer societies demonstrates clearly that for most of our evolution meat has not been a major part of our diet I'd argue that we really need to go back beyond our nearest relatives to understand how o...

Here's what I originally said. Clearly the original argument was about when exactly humans started consuming animal products You're also wrong to think that we didn't eat meat until the invention of fire. It's pretty well accepted today that what allowed humans brains to grow to the size they are to...

Again with this? Just because I support one hypothesis over another doesn't mean that Flinn, Geary & Ward are wrong in saying that no theory has gained complete acceptance. It just means that a lot of smart people have different thoughts on how it all went down, and to me, the bone marrow hypothesis...

I got the information from my biological anthropology professor from years and years ago, Pete Knutson, Ph.D, Stanford. I took the class in 2009. Edit: Scratch that, he got kicked out of Stanford after studying there for three years, and finished his degree and got his Ph.D at the University of Wash...