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Orality and Literacy (New Accents)
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Quick attempt to write out the logic beyond my Food of the Gods review:
Starting 2 million years ago, homo Habilis emerges from grasslands as meat eaters. This is cited as the main explanation for the growth of the brain, but it's not clear how eating meat led to genetic changes that would pass down to offspring.
However, in hunting mammals (ie:
able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation.
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