Adam\'s Autopsy by Derek Bickerton

Initially, many experts concur that we didnt learn to tame or control produce until well-nigh 400,000 days ago. In a documentary ab show up gentlemankind erectus entitled Prehistoric Autopsy, end 2 , Dr. Anne Skinner of Williams College in Massachusetts examines scorch attach animal bone go out back to 1.5 million old age ago that were found at a site be by homo erectus at the same time. In her search she is able to prove that the temperature employ to create these marks was higher(prenominal) than what a natural kick up of that environment could produce then suggesting they might have been created by a man make hearth. In his account book, Adams Tongue: How humankind make Language, How Language Made Language  Adam Bickerton everyplacely suggests that humans were using fire about this time, listing it among other(a) simultaneous human inventions. Moreover, Bickertons book dates homo erectus at near 2 million years old, examining at great aloofness what was o ccurring in their evolution at this time.\nWhats flame got to do with it?, you ask. Well, haughty fire now meant that human ancestors could cook their food, leading to a much better quality, wholesome rich diet over the difficult to digest grains, grasses, cockamamie and berries that had been relied on prior to center field eating days. Bickertons theory differs here, preferring what he calls power scavenging  (involving whatever methods are necessary to cl labour the prize, in this case, dead carcasses of large animals) as a step up from merely cracking bones with stone implements for the marrow they contained inside. I dont mean to suggest that fondness wasnt eaten until our ancestors learned to control fire. Meat, as shown through dentition and gut size in both(prenominal) the video and Bickertons book (Pp. 157) was a large part of their diet. My aim here is to point out that this discovery allowed them to process the stub more efficiently than the crude scraps they d previously reach accustomed to. More nutrients, easi...