RE: evolutionary psychology
September 2, 2021 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2021 at 10:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Difference in volume and quality, not kind, we imagine.
Then you watch something like that famous painted dog scene in planet earth and think - yup..that's a fucking maneuver, and they've all learned it. I suspect they might have chatted at some point and passed it along from there. Don't even get me started (again) on plants or fungi....and plants and fungi. As I understand it, there's no single adaptation or feature of the human animal that is predominantly responsible for us being what we've become. We're generalist, not specialists - and it was the combination of all of these singularly unremarkable adaptations into one aggressive and compact package that's let us ride bareback and pantsless all over this rock.
I'm also reminded of something I read about teething, and how we should probably call it chewthing - because this is why we do it. It's not to break teeth in, but to prepare muscles for chewing which will also, coincidentally, begin to be used for talking as well. The earliest indicators that linguists point to as possibly suggesting that we could talk is evidence of diving for food nearshore - which would have required the same breathing control as speaking. We might chatter as a side effect of being hungry, and how we satisfy that hunger - not unlike a bunch of other primates....
If you can hold your breath to dive for a clam, and then chew that clam up - you can probably make noises about it that other diving clam eaters will associate with diving for clams.
Then you watch something like that famous painted dog scene in planet earth and think - yup..that's a fucking maneuver, and they've all learned it. I suspect they might have chatted at some point and passed it along from there. Don't even get me started (again) on plants or fungi....and plants and fungi. As I understand it, there's no single adaptation or feature of the human animal that is predominantly responsible for us being what we've become. We're generalist, not specialists - and it was the combination of all of these singularly unremarkable adaptations into one aggressive and compact package that's let us ride bareback and pantsless all over this rock.
I'm also reminded of something I read about teething, and how we should probably call it chewthing - because this is why we do it. It's not to break teeth in, but to prepare muscles for chewing which will also, coincidentally, begin to be used for talking as well. The earliest indicators that linguists point to as possibly suggesting that we could talk is evidence of diving for food nearshore - which would have required the same breathing control as speaking. We might chatter as a side effect of being hungry, and how we satisfy that hunger - not unlike a bunch of other primates....
If you can hold your breath to dive for a clam, and then chew that clam up - you can probably make noises about it that other diving clam eaters will associate with diving for clams.
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