Assorted links

  1. Even earlier evidence for meat-eating (3.4 million years ago versus 2.6 million years ago)  
  2. "A family of Missouri cave-dwellers at risk of losing home to foreclosure has found a way to keep it."
  3. Deep-fried arms race at the Indiana State Fair
  4. More pictures of wife-carrrying (see my earlier post on this, the greatest of sports)
  5. Merrell starts making minimalist shoes (The Merrell Barefoot), in partnership with Vibram
  6. The Barefoot Bandit inspires an evil and unhealthy copycat who must be brought to justice

Comments

If you read the new Sciam

Submitted by Levi on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 13:48.

If you read the new Sciam article (available online) Michael Shermer talks about the new reclassification of Neanderthal as a subclass of Homo Sapiens. Now called Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis. Even without this new classification it is a closer evolutionary relative than chimpanzee or other apes. It is well known that Neanderthals ate a diet consisting of almost exclusively wild game. In fact, they were nearly obligate carnivores. So we don't even have to go back millions of years to prove the efficacy of a diet rich in animal products!