Comment · Wed, December 26, 2012
Engraved stone dating back 30,000 years found in China. Incisions imply possibility of counting or recording?
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The problem is you're unaware of where your thoughts are coming from. I can assure you they're from outdated colonialist anthropology.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
My thoughts are coming from basic logic. The amount of nutrition our brains need to run at optimal efficiency for what we currently know, is very hard to achieve. The amino acids, antioxidants, and vitamins necessary to properly protect and operate the functions of long-term potentiation are not found in foods in all regions of the world. To get them all, modern humans need to ship things in from all over the world. Sometimes that is not even enough, given certain genetic deficiencies, so we have to have extracts and other synthetic supplementation. Ancient humans had neither the knowledge of said nutrients, nor the ability to acquire them. There is no Darwinistic moral superiority at play here, nor bias arising from an internal need to feel superior to our predecessors. There are only hard facts. Until you link me some facts, my points still stand.