Humans First Used Tools to Eat Meat 250,000 Years Ago. Here’s What the Discovery Means

[SlyPokerDog]

A dig in the desert reveals crude technology dating back a quarter of a million years

If you’re a developing species with dreams of dominating your home planet one day, you’re going to have to do two things first: grow a big brain and get yourself a nice set of opposable thumbs. With a big brain you can figure out how to use tools and with opposable thumbs you can pick them up.

Human beings had the brain and the thumbs down even before we were fully human, but when we actually started using tools was open to question. Now, a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science has found firm evidence that hominins used tools to butcher and prepare animals for eating as long as 250,000 years ago, or at least 50,000 years before the earliest modern humans appeared in Africa. That, in turn, may reveal a lot about all human development that followed.

http://time.com/4443060/humans-early-tools/

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So god created hominins in his brother-in-law's image, had a good laugh for 50,000 years, then created us.

 

[e_blazer]

This explains a lot.

Would this be considered an ad "hominin" attack?

 

[e_blazer]

Is that a nasty grease stain on his headrest?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I ate fried chicken with 2 forks. No knife. One fork to hold it and one to rip a big juicy chunk of chicken off with.

Guess I should be President.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

So an article says something dated x amount of years ago with 0 explination of dating method used some how disproves god?

 

[blue32]

the whole knife and fork thing is stupid... literally I can't stand eating things with my hands if they are greasy as fuck or pungent like mustard/onions.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So an article says something dated x amount of years ago with 0 explination of dating method used some how disproves god?

Show me where anything in that article attempts to disprove god.

 

[dviss1]

This explains a lot.

Would this be considered an ad "hominin" attack?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

If Trump vows to make KFC return to what it made in the 70s and 80s I'll vote for him. It was actually good then.

 

[dviss1]

So an article says something dated x amount of years ago with 0 explination of dating method used some how disproves god?

Dafuq?

Try proving God first. I like Neil's view on the issue.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Show me where anything in that article attempts to disprove god.

Just your sarcasm sir

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Dafuq?

Try proving God first. I like Neil's view on the issue.

Lololol neil is the ben golliver of science.

 

[crandc]

Who is Ben Golliver?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Who is Ben Golliver?

The fact that you have to ask that question essentially validates your every life choice.

Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss; I am envious.

 

[crandc]

Damn, Platypus, now I am curious. I'm presuming someone in popular culture, which I tend to be quite ignorant of (aside from baseball & basketball)?

 

[MarAzul]

I like Neil's view on the issue.

Ah! He is about as logical as a five year old.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Damn, Platypus, now I am curious. I'm presuming someone in popular culture, which I tend to be quite ignorant of (aside from baseball & basketball)?

Ben was a local kid who started writing for Blazers Edge when he was in high school. He worked his ass off. Sometimes he would copy parts of other reporters work. People give him a bad time for that. He is now writing for either ESPN or SI. Very nice guy.

 

[blue32]

Ben was a local kid who started writing for Blazers Edge when he was in high school. He worked his ass off. Sometimes he would copy parts of other reporters work. People give him a bad time for that. He is now writing for either ESPN or SI. Very nice guy.

-By Ben Golliver

FIFY

 

[jlprk]

http://time.com/4443060/humans-early-tools/

Wow. That may be the most stupidly-written article I've read in a month. The trophy goes to Time Magazine and carnivore chauvinist Jeffrey Kluger. To science articles, editors should assign only writers who read a lot of science.

Example: Pre-humans ate no protein till they learned to "prepare" meat. Why do modern humans need protein, then? Is he thinking of A-1 sauce?