Ever since a hominid used the first flaked stone,
the strength and vitality of the human race has depended more on its
cultures than its genomes. The whole point of doing smarter not
harder is to create ever more protective "bubbles".
Jillery at Talk.Origins

Exactly right. That stone flake slit foliage stems to improve the holding of broadleaves to wicker frames of domeshields and later dome huts, and slit meat and rhyzomes ultra-thin for sun curing, a precedent to cooking. Brawn changed from necessity to
cosmetic as the social brain bloomed.
DD at Sci.anthropology.paleo

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DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:

Ever since a hominid used the first flaked stone,
the strength and vitality of the human race has depended more on its
cultures than its genomes.

Which is interesting. Because that would be a "Tool." They made them.
They broke rocks in order to create these sharp flakes, to the best of
our knowledge. So the brain came first.

This strongly supports the Aquatic Ape model. I mean, they didn't have
to do anything special; just walk along a beach, eating. That's it. That all
by itself would have supplied them with a veritable cornucopia of
Omega-3s. Their brains were going to grow as big as genetics would
allow... and as soon as any mutations popped up, allowing their brains
to grow even bigger, that was going to happen too, as in "Also."

And the funny thing is? These were probably the dumb ones. The ones
we're digging up, the ones whose tools we're finding; they were probably
the dumb ones. No, not the costal population but the ones who peeled
off for whatever reason. So by the time they figured out how to break a
rock, create a flake, our real ancestors might've already been on to hand
axes or spears...

This is assuming that the broken rocks they're talking about are actually tools. Quite a few are not... maybe all of them are not.

Geofacts. Simply broken rocks. Looking at countless billions of rocks,
you're going to find broken rocks -- broken in nature, not by any level of "intelligence" -- enough to fill sky scrapers.





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On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 2:08:52 AM UTC-5, I Envy JTEM wrote:

DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:

Ever since a hominid used the first flaked stone,
the strength and vitality of the human race has depended more on its cultures than its genomes.

Which is interesting. Because that would be a "Tool." They made them.
They broke rocks in order to create these sharp flakes, to the best of
our knowledge. So the brain came first.

This strongly supports the Aquatic Ape model. I mean, they didn't have
to do anything special; just walk along a beach, eating. That's it. That all by itself would have supplied them with a veritable cornucopia of
Omega-3s. Their brains were going to grow as big as genetics would
allow... and as soon as any mutations popped up, allowing their brains
to grow even bigger, that was going to happen too, as in "Also."

And the funny thing is? These were probably the dumb ones. The ones
we're digging up, the ones whose tools we're finding; they were probably
the dumb ones. No, not the costal population but the ones who peeled
off for whatever reason. So by the time they figured out how to break a
rock, create a flake, our real ancestors might've already been on to hand axes or spears...

This is assuming that the broken rocks they're talking about are actually tools. Quite a few are not... maybe all of them are not.

Geofacts. Simply broken rocks. Looking at countless billions of rocks,
you're going to find broken rocks -- broken in nature, not by any level of "intelligence" -- enough to fill sky scrapers.

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Flake tools & "bubbles", not Fake tools & boobs.

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