Socialization due to meat

[Gordon Fitch]

I read about a theory like this several years ago in the
Usenet newsgroup talk.politics.animals.  I'm surprised
it's being presented as news.  However, it is good to be
reminded that when you see someone stuffing himself with
the remains of a dead animal, you're watching evolution
in action.  Of some sort.

-- Gordon

Kevin Robert Dean:
> Contact: Ryan A. Garcia
> rag at univrel.tamu.edu
> Social interactions may be traced back to carnivorous
> behavior
> COLLEGE STATION, February 19, 2002 - It's little more
> than a dinner choice for most people, but meat - and
> the cooperation involved in getting it - may be the
> foundation for modern-day social interactions says a
> Texas A&M University anthropologist. 
> Michael Alvard, a socio-cultural anthropologist who
> uses evolutionary theory to learn about human
> behavior, says the hunting and scavenging for meat, by
> humans, that developed perhaps as early as two million
> years ago, may have been a trigger for human mental
> abilities to evolve. 
> ...