Tag Archives: Charles Darwin
We were Pleistocene Predators
As natural is a word with a vast definition, diet is one with almost unlimited scope. Hence, the exploration of a natural diet as the touchstone of optimal health is but a Grail quest. The omnivorous diet of the San … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged carnivore, Charles Darwin, Homo erectus, mammoth, Paleolithic
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Chimps Head for Retirement
In 1871, the now-extinct Hornet magazine published a cartoon of Charles Darwin looking like a human-ape chimera. It was not meant kindly. We might suppose that progressive Victorian thinkers would have embraced chimps, gorillas, orangs, etc. as newly-found cousins. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment
Tagged animal rights, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, St. Francis, Thomas Berry
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My Big Fat Neanderthal Family Wedding
Was there a population that never experienced discrimination? Prejudice has an ancient pedigree, perhaps wired into the human psyche. I was musing whether Neanderthal people bore it first and endured the stigma longest. Thirty thousand years after they mysteriously disappeared, … Continue reading
Posted in Other
Tagged archaic humans, Brain size, Captain Fitzroy, Charles Darwin, DNA ancestry, Ernst Haeckel, Fuegian, John Gurche, Neanderthals, phrenology, Tierra del Fuego
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 