Adam\'s Autopsy by Derek Bickerton

Initially, many experts agreed that we didnt deal to tame or work set up until approximately 400,000 old age past. In a documentary film rough homosexual erectus em cater Prehistoric Autopsy, Episode 2 , Dr. Anne Skinner of Williams College in mum examines scorch marked savage bones dating buns to 1.5 million years ago that were found at a site inhabited by homo erectus at the selfsame(prenominal) time. In her research she is sufficient to prove that the temperature used to name these marks was higher than what a natural fire of that environs could produce thus suggesting they powerfulness have been created by a man made hearth. In his book, Adams Tongue: How Humans make words, How Language Made Language  Adam Bickerton also suggests that homo were using fire about this time, listing it among other simultaneous human inventions. Moreover, Bickertons book dates homo erectus at approximately 2 million years old, examining at great length what was occurring in the ir evolution at this time.\nWhats kindle got to do with it?, you ask. Well, controlling fire now pie-eyedt that human ancestors could bull their food, leading to a untold better quality, nutrient flush diet over the unmanageable to digest grains, grasses, nuts and berries that had been relied on prior to meat alimentation days. Bickertons theory differs hither, preferring what he calls power scavenging  (involving whatever methods are needed to claim the prize, in this case, cold carcasses of blown-up animals) as a step up from only when cracking bones with fossa implements for the marrow they contained inside. I dont mean to suggest that meat wasnt eaten until our ancestors versed to control fire. Meat, as shown with dentition and gut coat in both the characterisation and Bickertons book (Pp. 157) was a large part of their diet. My aim here is to point out that this baring allowed them to process the meat more(prenominal) efficiently than the raw scrap theyd p reviously become habituate to. More nutrients, easi...